Hello Rabbi
A. Maybe I didn’t explain myself correctly, so here goes: evolution says that the ape and the human have a common ancestor. The common, non-scientific opinion about evolution is that the ape is the human’s “father.” I’m asking what the difference is between the two views. The fact that they have a common ancestor could still mean that the ape preceded the human. And if not, then what does it mean that they have a common ancestor?
B. I assume that you also believe in the Torah that man and the animals were created at creation, or do you have some other conception?
C. Does science know why the earth is tilted and not straight?

Thank you

A. It’s a different description of reality. What do you mean, what’s the difference? Do you mean theologically? I don’t see a difference.
B. I’m not inclined to think that.
C. Why should it be straight? Its rotation is due to the circumstances in which it was formed and operates.

Hello Rabbi
A. I meant what practical difference there is between the two views—what do I get out of it?
B. So what are you inclined to think?

B. I am inclined toward the scientific conclusion of the Big Bang and evolution.

Hello Rabbi, and is it impossible to hold that evolution began from the time of creation, and that creation itself is the Big Bang?

I don’t understand the question. Do you mean that the Big Bang was less than six thousand years ago and evolution has been proceeding only over those years? Very, very unlikely.

Why?

Because the findings indicate that this took billions of years. And so does the probabilistic calculation as well (it is not likely that evolution happens that quickly).

A. The Malbim answers this claim and says that all this was created because of the Flood, when the springs of the earth also opened and things descended into the depths, and the scientists thought that each layer in the ground represented a number of years, but that is not so; rather, everything was created in the Flood. And you can’t say that this claim is incorrect; you can say that just as the claim about millions of years is hypothetical, this approach is also hypothetical. (By the way, on that verse the Malbim says about the tilt of the earth that it was created because of the Flood.)
B. Evolution can develop that quickly; that doesn’t have to be impossible. A scientific matter is not connected to logical intuition.

You can force a strained answer for anything, but all this is obviously highly improbable. A flood does no such thing, especially according to the knowledge we have today, which the Malbim did not have.

According to the accepted theory, the planets were formed from a flat disk of material left over from the concentration of a nebula into the sun. That disk was, of course, moving around the sun, and therefore the direction of rotation of all the planets around the sun and also around themselves (except for Venus) is in the same direction. Anything that deviates from that requires an explanation. According to Wikipedia, the accepted explanation for the tilt of the earth’s axis of rotation is a major collision that also created the moon 4 billion years ago.