The metaphor of eating from the tree of knowledge; Martin Buber on how individuals relate to the external world and the divine; the intellectual capabilities of humans; religion vs. science.
Notes
This paper was first posted in Word format at Hebrew University of Jerusalem [archive.org], where the author was the Chair in Bahá'í Studies.
Note: the punctuation errors in the PDF, e.g. reversed apostrophes and spaces before periods, seems to have been caused by a right-to-left text-direction software bug; see Microsoft Word original.
