Book Review: The Biblical Clock

 This is a book written by a Jewish writer concerning how the Bible and science attempt to explain the beginnings of creation.

You can see my review from the online book club here:

https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=179382

You can find a link to the book on Amazon here:

This book is written by a Jewish author, which made it interesting for me to read.  I was not expecting the Jewish Rabbis and scholars to have gone into as much effort to understand the world and beginning of creation.

The book is evidence that there is no real problem between science and religion, and that in previous centuries many religious scholars were scientists themselves.

What is more interesting is that for people who think that religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam believe in literal and unscientific interpretations of scripture this is not true.

I had thought that most Jews and even Christians accepted the idea that the world was created in six days literally.  However, it is now apparent that this is not something literal and according to mathematical calculations the world would be billions of years old.

They hold it to be older than the claims of modern science.  Time, however, is different to God and one day is like a thousand years to Him.

Such things are very interesting because not only was the book intellectual and deep but it seemed to hold similar ideas to Islam.

The idea that a day for God is like a thousand years for a human being is similarly found in Islam.

It seems that Kabbalah, the more spiritual type of Judaism, has some similarities with Islam.

It also has more intellectual, deep interpretations and scientific debates with scripture that I have heard previously from people who would be called creationists and written off.

Therefore, I felt the book was an insightful and interesting read for all the world religions and backgrounds.

Especially people who have an interest in the relationship between science and religion, as well as theology or Kabbalah may enjoy the book.