I keep hearing this phrase my mainly atheists or people who bash religion claiming that the bible says the world is 6000 years old, but no where have I been able to actually find a verse or anything that references to the world being 6000 years old. G-d is outside of time correct? So couldn't a day perhaps be a million years to G-d? How is the time measured? Isn't this time currently measured via the Roman calender? Let me know.
The 6000 or so years are measured from when Adam was born
NOT, from creation.
So it says Nothing about the "days" prior to the creation of Adam.
a)We have a tradition that those 6 days contained eras. This was long before big bang theory, rabbis would refer to the tradition and say eras.
b)The sun was not apparent until during day 4, so there is no question that "days" 1-3 didn't have the concept of a daytime, nighttime. Even Morning and Evening, cannot have meant in relation to the sun, yet they are mentioned every day. "and it was evening, and it was morning, day x"
If we start reinterpreting the Torah in order to meet the science of today, then we are basing ourselves on science, not torah. Then when science changes, Torah is cheapened. And it's not honest to reinterpret torah in light of science so as to pretend it is saying things that it clearly isn't.
A person that interprets things SO metaphorically, and without any basis in tradition, really doesn't believe it at all and is not being honest. Like a reform minister I heard that , when asked what he thought about the truth of some nutter's religious claim, he said it is poetic, and open to interpretation, and not testable and you can't pass judgement. If every time you think science has proven something wrong, then you reinterpret the religious text more and more wildly to make it fit, then you are not reading it honestly. and you are in denial. and don't really respect the text.