re: #29 Lincolntf

Speaking of tenuous connections to Creationism, has anyone else noticed that most of the Israeli news agencies/websites, etc. use the 5769 date (indicating 5, 769 years since Creation) as well as the AD/CE date?
Does that mean that when I’m reading pro-Israeli sources, I’m somehow getting my info. from Creationists?
I know I should stay out of these threads, but I only noticed the date thing yesterday.

The Jewish calendar is based on the traditional time since the first book of Genesis, derived from the number of generations since Adam. (Note that the Bible gives three different figures for this number in three different places). However, most Jews do not take this as a literal figure; Orthodox Jews, for instance, regard the “seven days of creation” as an arbitrary number, as no one knows how G-d defined a “day” back then, and the concepts of “day ” and “night” would be irrelevant until the Sun was created on the fourth “day” anyway.

Courtesy of the Jewish Museum Online.

/Which is where I looked it up just now.

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eon