Do Torah And Science Agree On Creation?

For Friedmann, each day of creation represented a kabbalistic sabbatical of 7,000. He then deduces that each of those years had 365.25 days like the modern calendar does. Then, applying the verse of Psalm 90:4 where it can be interpreted that a “G-d day” is like a thousand of our days, he comes up with an equation of 7,000 X 365.25 X 1,000 or 2.56 billion years, per creation day in the Torah. Meaning that in the literal creation days things were created in their full form appearing to be as old as the formula shows.

Applying this new figure for each creation day in the Torah produces some interesting alignments with modern science’s aging of things: whereas science dates the universe within 13.65 to 13.89 billion years old, Friedmann’s calculation shows the Torah says it will appear to 13.74 billion years old. His figures are roughly in line, as well for when science dates the sun, moon, plants, animals, and modern man.

As for any variance between science numbers and the literal Torah days, Friedmann argues that this can be pointed to things being made in final form instead of developing over time. Friedmann cited Jewish scholars, who long argued that creation was about creating fully formed and ready things  rather than creating all things from scratch. In other words, science could be dating gaseous matter in the universe assuming it developed naturally rather than being created in final form.