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CHAPTER 22 GENESIS CREATION STORY AND

RECENT COSMOLOGICAL FINDINGS—…

CHAPTER 22

Genesis Creation Story and Recent Cosmological
Findings—A Statistical Evaluation

22.1 Abstract and Structure of the Chapter

Evolution of the universe is depicted in our civilization on two different time-
scales: in Genesis story, where the universe evolution is described in “Days,” and
in modern day cosmology, described in billions of years (Giga-years; Gyrs). While
the latter scale is scientifically validated by both theory and observation, the for-

mer scale is considered an article of faith, incompatible with the scientific scale.

In this chapter, we relate to most recent findings regarding dating of significant
cosmological events and pinpoint corresponding events in the biblical time-scale.
We then apply statistical analysis to establish possible correspondence between the
two time-scales.
The structure of this chapter is as follows: in section 22.2 we describe the
nature of the analyses conducted. In section 22.3, data sources and data used in
the pursuing statistical analyses are expounded. Section 22.4 delivers results from
the statistical analyses with some predictions, as implied by the derived data-driven
statistical models. Section 22.5 addresses some methodological issues associated
with current and former analyses, and section 22.6 delivers some conclusions.

22.2 Introduction
The story of the creation of the universe and its evolution has been, for the bet-
ter part of humankind existence on Earth, an article of faith belonging in the
sphere of religion. In the Judeo-Christian religious culture, the “history” of the

universe is unfolding in the first chapter of Genesis, where the universe evolution
is described in terms of six time phases. Each of these phases, denoted “Day,”

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