Rav Avigdor Miller on Reading Secular Science Books
Q: Could or should somebody read secular books that discuss the creation and the science to better appreciate the creation? Let's say a book on topsoil in order to better appreciate Hashem’s creation; should one look in such books?
A: It depends. It depends. I would say that beforehand you should go to a moreh hora’ah and ask him if you are fit to do it. I did that, and I received a psak from a gadol many years ago. But it's not for everybody.
I'll tell you why. Because these people who wrote the books put poison into the medicine. As you read the books that are supposed to give you a medicine, there's a poison there too. Every page is full of shekar vekazav. So if somebody is capable of sifting out, of being mesanen, and he can strain out the poison from the medicine, then by all means. By all means he can do it. But ask somebody beforehand if he thinks you're fit to do it.
August 1996
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