13th century rabbi says universe billions of years old

Interesting but as irrelevant and wrong headed as the Young Earth crowd. Trying to determine reality from mythos instead of the rocks is simply mental masturbation.

First, even if the story were true, he did NOT get the same answer as modern science. He got a whole range of answers, most of which are not just wrong but absurd.

It is also another great example of the forced scenarios just making God look stupid.If Genesis 1 is "Creation in Thought" and the God character just thunk up the idea She really didn't have much excuse for needing a day off to rest and it's pretty silly to look at the thought and be really satisfied and find it good.Also, the second tale found in Genesis 2&3 show that the "Creation in thought" must not have been as good as God thought since the order of creation is entirely different in almost every facet, not just the sequential creation of man and woman. It again shows a not very bright God who somehow forgot that She thunk about that help meet for Adam and instead had to try out all the other creations first before cloning Eve from Adam.

They know for certain that the heavens are over 14 billion years old and that the earth is only 4.5 billion years old.

You can take that anyway you want, but as usual you would certainly be wrong.Both the creation myths in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2&3 are totally wrong, false, silly, proven to be nonsense.You of course are simply resorting to the classic dishonesty found in so called "Biblical Christians" where you take something out of context and ignore all of the facts that show you are just posting nonsense.Genesis 1:1 is part of a statement of what happened on the first day. An honest person would include all of the passage through Genesis 1:1-5. I'll quote it for you since it seems you are not familiar with the passage.

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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

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3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was morningthe first day.

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Now the honest poster would realize that there are several things that show the story is false, a fable. It mentioned one day. Now the fact that the sun and moon have not yet been created means that statement cannot be true and there is the additional small problem that even if that were possible, 14+billion years is not the same period as 4.5 billion years and neither is a day.Sorry but to claim otherwise is at best to show ignorance and far more likely just more Christian dishonesty.