annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
They "reason" like you; illogically and fallaciously.
The Jewish (Israelite) work week is literally six days with a one day sabbath rest. This is BECAUSE (that's what the FOR in verse 11 means) God created the heavens and the earth in six days. It's so clear that even a child can understand it, but not an unbeliever.
That is clearly circular reasoning, you can't escape it.
Also: not even all Jews believe in a literal understanding.
As director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History, Rabbi Natan Slifkin embodies the ideal of a Biblical scientist. He doesn’t see any contradictions between the worlds of Bible and science. Judaism, he explains, has always been able to accommodate science and theology. He quoted the Rambam, a preeminent medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher.
“As Rambam said, accept the truth from wherever it comes,” he told Breaking Israel News. “According to the rationalist approach, it is preferable to explain creation in scientific terms, because it is always preferable to see God working within nature and a system of law. “
Conflicts do arise between Torah and science. The Hebrew calendar, presently standing at 5776, is, in theory, based on the creation of the world. Rabbi Slifkin again quoted the Rambam’s Guide to the Perplexed, in which the rabbinical scholar wrote, “The account of creation is not all to be taken literally.”
The Rambam went on to explain that the Six Days represent a conceptual rather than historical account of creation. Rabbi Slifkin cited Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman (1843-1921), a member of Agudath Israel’s Council of Torah Sages, who suggested that the Six Days of Creation were lengthy eras rather than 24-hour periods.