Q&A: The Age of the World
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The Age of the World
Question
What is the Rabbi's view on the age of the world?
Answer
In a few months it will have a birthday. We'll wait and see how many times they lift the chair, and then subtract 1.
Discussion on Answer
Indeed, I allow for a well-established scientific conclusion. Shocking.
So how old is the world?
I said. Wait for the birthday and then we'll see.
Maybe anyway?
If the Rabbi means that on Rosh Hashanah we'll mark 5,785 years for the world, and that Adam was also created then, that can't be right, since Adam wasn't created together with the world and evolutionary development couldn't have happened within the six days of creation.
5,784 or billions of years? I just heard on Daniel Doshi's podcast that the Rabbi allows for the possibility that we and the monkeys came from the same creature.