This is a copy of the article by Dr. Gerald Schroeder which was originally printed on aish.com website but unavailable any more.
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 I write this article, the elections of 2008 are going on in USA. Daily news, reports, talk and video shows, reveal a very acute display of the phenomenon discussed in this article: the mentality of the idol worship.
As we mentioned in Part 2, the dictionary definition implies that Faith is a such belief which is not based on any proof. This might bring us to a surprising conclusion that Faith is no different from fairy tales, folk stories or any kind of fiction as no proof is required … how much sense it would be in any of the dominant ideas of humanity if Faith does not require any proof … we need to fix this misconception.