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One of the most confusing topics, least understood in Torah, is the timing of the process of Creation - the six days of Creation. This article will show again that Torah does not make confusions but they are products of the preconditioned human mind and limited human language .

As for the start, we have to notice that the Hebrew word yom , although translated as day, cannot carry the same meaning as a time unit because in the first three days of the creation, the luminaries, sun and moon, which make our day, were not created yet. This means that the the word yom was used only because there was no other words to describe the … time unit which precede the … creation of time.

Another wording pointing to the similar confusion is usage of the words erev and boker. Again, similar to the above, there could not be morning or evening as usual translations suggest, because there were no sun or moon created yet. But we can get a deeper meenings of the Hebrew words erev and boker. The root of the word erev means chaos. The word boker in it’s form bekaret means order. These translations let us read expression Vayehi Erev Vayehi Boker as “there was chaos and (then) there was order”.

The process of Creation is nothing else but a transformation from the Chaos to Order according to the Intelligent Design. (See our post http://www.torahtruth.org/2008/10/bareishit-creation-the-scientific-approach/).

All of the above was revealed more than 800 centuries ago by Nachmanides.

For more detail discussion please read the outstanding article of Dr. Gerald Schroeder in http://www.aish.com/societyWork/sciencenature/Age_of_the_Universe.asp