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This is the best treatment I’ve seen of the topic of reconciling Genesis with the scientific data that the universe is 13.7 Billion years old. Although the book is self contained, those not previously exposed to Einstein’s Theories of special and general relativity may struggle with some parts of this book. Those theories are explained, but the treatment is brief for those not already familiar Einstein’s work.

The author is a Jew, and it is amazing that he cites ancient Jewish sages that figured out Genesis centuries before Einstein was even born.

I seldom recommend books, but I can endorse this one for those who are willing to put a little effort into the reading. If you are already comfortable with Relativity theory this is not a difficult book. It is not a Science book, but offers a compelling interpretation of Genesis that completely reconciles the Biblical account with modern science.

The book is orthodox in that it does consider Adam to be the first human. The book also demonstrates that the Biblical and Archaeological timelines agree for all events AFTER the creation of Adam. For this reason, it says nothing that would offend a Young Earth Creationist.

To oversimplify, the Genesis account can be taken literally for all events AFTER the creation of Adam. Events prior to that, however must take into account the effect of Relativity on the observers perception of elapsed time. The book agrees 100% with the order of events of Creation, and explains the seeming difficulties such as light being created before the Sun.

I’m familiar with most of the attempts to reconcile the Genesis account with Science, but this is the only one I’ve seen that doesn’t have holes. I again repeat my surprise that Jewish Sages arrived at essentially the same interpretation of the Genesis creation account hundreds of years before the scientific rationale was known.


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Genesis and the Big Bang The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible Gerald Schroeder 9780553354133 Books Reviews

Very informative.
Just started reading but glad the book came nicely made.
If you want to lead agnostics and atheists to Christ - you really ought to read this.
Can you be a creationist and an evolutionist?

Gerald Schroeder's answer, validated through the use of einstein's special and general relativity, fossil records, trends in biological organizations, and of course biblical statements and commentaries, is an astounding YES.

How is it possible?
The bible says the world was created in 6 days and in one day he rested.

The answer is time dilation. What might be perceived as 6 24 hour days might actually have been reflective of a much longer timespan (15 billion years).

And how do we explain the Neanderthal man or Homo erectus, when the bible tells us Adam and Eve were created 5768 years ago?

The answer is Neshamah ("soul" in hebrew). God gave Adam and Eve soul, something that was not given to the earlier forms of man-like creatures.

This book is filled with more interesting insight showing the mutual agreements between the biblical explanation for the creation of life, and the modern perspectives on origins of life as researched by modern physicists, chemists, and biologists.

I highly recommend this book for those interested in origins of life and religion.
When Torah and natural science seem to conflict, one or the other is being incorrectly interpreted. That's the principle Gerald Schroeder propounds and defends in this remarkable volume. And I can only think that Moses Maimonides would have been delighted.
What Schroeder argues, basically, is that the biblical account of creation in six days can be read as taking place over six _literal_ days -- and that not only does this reading fail to conflict with modern science, indeed science itself supports that reading. The solution? The six days are "God's time," reckoned from within one frame of reference, and the millions of years with which science deals are "earth time," reckoned from within another. The two are reconciled by the theory of relativity. Moreover, this reading is firmly grounded in traditional Jewish texts that predated the theory of relativity by one or two thousand years.
I'll let Schroeder fill you in on the details. But whether those details are sound or not, his _approach_ is refreshingly sane.
On the one hand, we have various sorts of Bible-thumper insisting that all our knowledge must come from the Word of God and nothing else -- an insistence that turns easily into anti-intellectual ranting against science. On the other, we have various sorts of scientistic yahoo insisting that religion is bunk and science is the royal road to truth.
Rubbish, on both counts. The Torah does indeed bear signs that it is a Divine communication, and people who believe this are being entirely reasonable. (See, e.g., Lawrence Kelemen's _Permission To Receive_ for a defense of this view.) However, the Bible itself insists that human beings are made in the Divine image, that rationality is that very image, and that the "natural" universe provides abundant evidence of the workings of the Divine. And it is _this_ view, in one form or another, which -- as a matter of history and logic -- gave rise to modern science in the first place; without the "substrate" of rationalism implied by the view that the entire universe is the creation of a single rational Mind, "empirical" science can't even get started. There's no need to decide between the Bible and science; they can't really be separated anyway.
So it may be that some of Schroeder's details require revision (and I understand that some of them are in fact revised in his next book, _The Science of God_). Nevertheless the lesson to learn from this book is still sound that whenever science and Torah seem to be at odds with one another, the proper procedure is to suspend final judgment, think, and wait. Further information may provide unexpected resolutions.
(And by the way, the review below picks on Schroeder for an absolutely ridiculous "error." The big, round figures used in those calculations aren't anywhere near precise enough to locate us in the "middle of the fifth day" as opposed to the sixth, and Schroeder doesn't say they are.)
Eye opening and brings Christian and Jewish insights together. Best part - harmonizes the 6 days of creation with the 14 billion year age of the universe. Those calculations are left out of the book but he strongly hints at it. You can go online to discover the space-time versus “earth-time” Resolution in his post there. Read this book! It will help end the snarky whining of skeptics who don’t get it
This is the best treatment I’ve seen of the topic of reconciling Genesis with the scientific data that the universe is 13.7 Billion years old. Although the book is self contained, those not previously exposed to Einstein’s Theories of special and general relativity may struggle with some parts of this book. Those theories are explained, but the treatment is brief for those not already familiar Einstein’s work.

The author is a Jew, and it is amazing that he cites ancient Jewish sages that figured out Genesis centuries before Einstein was even born.

I seldom recommend books, but I can endorse this one for those who are willing to put a little effort into the reading. If you are already comfortable with Relativity theory this is not a difficult book. It is not a Science book, but offers a compelling interpretation of Genesis that completely reconciles the Biblical account with modern science.

The book is orthodox in that it does consider Adam to be the first human. The book also demonstrates that the Biblical and Archaeological timelines agree for all events AFTER the creation of Adam. For this reason, it says nothing that would offend a Young Earth Creationist.

To oversimplify, the Genesis account can be taken literally for all events AFTER the creation of Adam. Events prior to that, however must take into account the effect of Relativity on the observers perception of elapsed time. The book agrees 100% with the order of events of Creation, and explains the seeming difficulties such as light being created before the Sun.

I’m familiar with most of the attempts to reconcile the Genesis account with Science, but this is the only one I’ve seen that doesn’t have holes. I again repeat my surprise that Jewish Sages arrived at essentially the same interpretation of the Genesis creation account hundreds of years before the scientific rationale was known.