Nadene Goldfoot
The Jewish calendar shows that this is the year 5784. What happened in the year 6000? Creation? The starting point of Hebrew chronology is the year 3761 BCE, the date for the creation of the world as described in the Old Testament or Tanakh. This is in the Torah, the 5 Books of Moses.
The Jewish calendar is luni-
The Jewish calendar, derived from the ancient Hebrew calendar, has remained unchanged since about AD (CE) 900. It is the official calendar of the modern state of Israel and is used by Jewish people throughout the world as a religious calendar.
What has science told us about the period before this? They tell us of cave man and dinosaurs and mammoths living 10,000 years ago. There are some people of other beliefs who do not believe science, especially in the theory of evolution.
How are we to explain why our calendar, we Jews, the the people of the book, which started only 6,000 years ago? Much of mankind has been tested by DNA scientists who have found that men are of a clan or line of men deemed the Q's. My Jewish father is one of them, an offshoot of the tree of life of the Q's who now inhabit as the native Americans of North and South America. Somewhere along that line, our very distant Y ancestor lived as a shoot off the Q line who lived 20,000 years ago; originating in Asia. The earliest well documented of the human presence in the Americas was 15,000 years ago by the Native Americans. My father's Q line left the other Q line and went into the land of Judah and stayed. His is a Jewish line of the Y being Q1b1a or (QBZ67). Most of the men there today are the J1 line on the tree of life.
Judaism accepts all experimentally proven facts and observations of the theory of evolution.
Judaism accepts some of the assumptions and interpretations embedded in the theory of evolution, but rejects other assumptions and speculations which contradict fundamental Jewish beliefs, and which are anyway not scientifically proven; to those Judaism offers different interpretations.
Judaism strongly rejects all the extensions of the theory of evolution beyond natural sciences, which endorse the biological assumption of the “survival of the fittest” in commerce and human societies as a whole by justifying claims of social inequality, sexism, racism, Nazism, eugenics, and other moral-social deviations as “laws of nature”.
The two sets of human thought—religion and science—are fundamentally different in their aims and purposes, in their methods of operation, in their scope of interest and issues, and in their origin and ramifications.
Whenever science surpasses its limits, or religion exceeds its boundaries, it actually is a form of an abuse of both. This has happened to the theory of evolution in a more powerful mode than any other interaction between science and religion.
The agenda of many scientists who promote the theory of evolution is to achieve the goal of understanding the existence of the universe as a random, purposeless, natural development, evolved slowly over billions of years from a common ancestor by way of natural selection, devoid of any supernatural metaphysical power.
I might add that people 6,000 years ago or even 5,000 years ago would never understand today's scientific concepts of the theory of evolution, and one can say that G-d tried to make it as easy as possible for their level of understanding. as they must have been asking for answers.
What is science? …Science is the study of the natural and social world through a systematic method that uses evidence, observation, and experimentation. It involves building knowledge through testable hypotheses and predictions. That means one can go through a test on something over and over and get the same
results. Science is a strict, systematic discipline that uses a specific methodology. Evidence-based: Science is based on evidence, including objective observation, measurement, and data. It's not an untested idea. It must be proven to be true
In several places, the Rambam posits that what the Torah portrays at the beginning of Breishit, it is not intended to be understood literally. Rabbi Natan Slifkin, in his book, Challenge of Creation, translates one portion of the introduction to the Rambam's Guide for the Perplexed as follows:
“Now, on the one hand, the subject of Creation is very important, but on the other hand, our ability to understand these concepts is very limited. Therefore, God described these profound concepts, which His Divine wisdom found necessary to communicate to us, using allegories, metaphors and imagery. Our sages put it succinctly: “It is impossible to communicate to man the stupendous immensity of the Creation of the universe. Therefore, the Torah simply says ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’.” Thus, they pointed out that the subject is a deep mystery, as Solomon said, “It is elusive and exceedingly deep; who can discover it?” (Kohelet 7:24). It has been outlined in metaphors so that the masses can understand it according to their mental capacity, while the educated take it in a different sense.”
Rabbi Slifkin quotes a more succinct statement from the Guide: “The account of creation given in Scripture is not, as is generally believed, intended to be literal in all its parts.” He also quotes the Abarbanel in his commentary:
The Rambam believed that there were not separate creative acts on six days, but rather everything was created on one day, in a single instant [again, in line with the Big Bang Theory]. In the work of Creation, there is mention of “six days” to indicate the different levels of created beings according to their natural hierarchy; not that there were actual days, and nor were there a chronological sequence to that which was created in the acts of Genesis.
The fact that heavy hitters like the Rambam and Abarbanel are “in the camp” that could support a deviation from the classical understanding of the age of the universe being less than 6,000 years old may help many students process the discrepancy they see and feel when they look at their high school science
Resource:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6VEeCFcNPA: WOW AMAZING LECTURE
textbooks.https://prizmah.org/blog/responding-questions-about-torah-and-science-sources-high-school-
Deep Ancestry Genographic project by Spencer Wells
educatorshttps://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/hebraica/about-hebrew-calendar#:~:text=The%20Jewish%20calendar%20is%20luni,(before%20the%20Common%20Era).https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3721658/
https://www.academia.edu/32595370/Phylogeography_of_human_Y_chromosome_haplogroup_Q3_L275_from_an_academic_citizen_science_collaboration?email_work_card=reading-history
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