Our Sages debate (in Taanis 5b): "Yaakov avinu did not die" "Was it for nothing that he was mourned, embalmbed and buried?" "Just as his descendents are alive, he too is alive."
"From a scientific perspective, believing that G-d created billions of atoms... that later developed and evolved... is no different than believing - in accordance with the straightforward meaning of Bereishit - that G-d created the heavens and the earth on the first day..." The Rebbe, Mind Over Matter, Ch.2
