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@Nechomah: There is no other known animal that has split hooves and doesn’t chew its cud, like the chazir, but there are animals that chew their cud and don’t have split hooves, like the camel which is mentioned in the Torah and the Llama which is not.

Still not sure what this has to do with evolution. And it’s not “monkeys”, it’s apes, a different species. While I still am strong of the belief that everything comes from Hakadosh Baruch Hu, still He put in the world science and mathematics as a way to describe the world without Him in order that people should come to their beliefs through bechira. In other words, if there is absolute proof that there is an Abishter, no one will have any schar for believing in Him.

Evolution is just another aspect of science that exists in the world and I see no stira between that and the Torah anymore than there is a stira between red shift caused by Doppler effects and the Torah. How it fits into the Ma’aseh Beraishis is another issue, one that I’m frankly not bothered too much by.