Excuses for the age of the world
As a man of both Torah and science, I would love to hear from you what you think is the most convincing/satisfactory/correct excuse regarding the apparent contradiction between the age of the world according to the Torah and according to science.
For example, the age estimated from dinosaur bones and millions of years old geological layers found by various researchers. I haven't researched this in depth, but are the researchers' claims about this at all true or are these unfounded hypotheses, and if so, what is the most plausible excuse, even according to believing scientists?
thanks.
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As for the age of the world, it doesn't really bother me. There are all sorts of possibilities to explain it and I don't see a way to decide between them. As a rule, I don't treat the Torah and certainly not our tradition as a factual source but as a normative source.
Regarding dating dinosaur bones, it's not an exact science and mistakes can happen, but in any case, it's probably not 6,000 years old.
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Asks:
I didn't understand what you said, regarding the attitude towards the Torah as a normative source, I would appreciate a detail/explanation.
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Rabbi:
The Torah does not deal with facts but with instructions (norms). Rabbi Yitzchak Barashi, the first on the Torah, asks why the Torah did not begin in this month for you, because he assumed that the Torah is from the language of instruction, since it came to instruct, and the other parts of the Torah (the stories) are unnecessary. Therefore, even when the Torah describes facts such as the creation of the world, this is not necessarily a factual description but rather a form of appropriate reference to history. Like an educational myth. Therefore, the question does not bother me. There are also various settlements for contradiction, but as mentioned, this is not interesting to me.
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Asks:
I don't understand this approach properly.. What does it mean, for example, about the creation of the world? That it didn't really happen out of thin air, but…?
As usual. There is no end to this, because according to this it is also said that there was no real exodus from Egypt, but that history should only be treated as if it happened. Where does the line cross here? (Or perhaps I did not understand your words correctly)
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Rabbi:
Physics also believes that creation came from nothing. The debate is only about the timetable.
For biblical facts, see my review here .
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