The book starts off
with a gripping story of the fall of the city of Acre during the
crusades in 1291. It is through this story that we meet Isaac Ben
Samuel, who miraculously survives the siege, who comes up with a
formula for showing how the Earth is millions of years old long
before scientist came to that conclusion. From that start you are
drawn into as we travel through time meeting rabbis and other
scholars as they share their wisdom and insights on how the Age of
the Universe, the timeline the science gives us for the evolution of
life, and the big bang.
The many
interactions in this book are so real and convincing that can
actually picture yourself in the pages. One such interaction was when
a Rabbi was teaching Torah studies and one of the students brought up
the question of what does the phase “it was good” mean. It is a
simple question that probably many of us wondered about when reading
the creation story in Genesis. Another example and one my favorite
interactions was when the question arose of why we use different
names for God throughout the Bible. The Rabbi's answer was rather
intriguing when he said we do this for each enumeration of God.
I found the book
the book hard to put down as I found each page took me on a journey
of discovery secrets that would show how religion and science are not
as different as most of us think. Some of the ideas I particularly
found interesting was the idea of God days during the creation and
how that each day of creation represents one of the millennium
following since the creation.
I would recommend
this for any that has ever wondered if science and the Bible have a
commonality. I
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