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Shai Cherry, Professor of Jewish Thought at Vanderbilt University, remarks that these Modern Orthodox scientists have rejected the approach taken by Jewish theologians.

Theologians have tended to use later writings, such as Midrash and Kabbalah, to reconcile modern science with Genesis.

The Orthodox scientists, by comparison, have largely ignored Jewish theology, in favor of a fundamentalist and literalist interpretation of Genesis.

Yet in their writings, each of them seeks to reconcile science with Genesis.

Cherry speculates, " They were targeting an American Jewish community that privileges science over Torah as a source of scientific knowledge.

If Genesis could be shown to have anticipated Darwin or Einstein, then the Bible would regain an aura of truth that it had been losing since the advent of biblical criticism and modern science.