Religion has attempted in
the past to dogmatise on Cosmology. But wiser theologians always recognized
that when Scripture tells us stories telling HOW creation happened, these must
be understood as Myths, that is the attempt to describe a spiritual requirement
in seemingly historical terms. For example, the creation myth about God making
the world in six days and resting on the seventh is a way of teaching that Man,
created in the image of God, needs to rest once a week from all earthly matters
to concentrate on spiritual matters.
--Bill Heilbronn, from The Courage of Uncertainty; A Jewish View of
the Continuing Evolution of Faith in the Fields of Religion and Science
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