If the above is true then it's going to be a very long time before they and us ever meet
If the above is true then it's going to be a very long time before they and us ever meet
I disagree. Read "Genesis and the Big Bang" by Schroeder. He is both an astro-physicist and an Orthodox Jew. He has shown that the first 5 1/2 "days" (i.e. before the creation of Man) were not days as we know them, but epochs. He shows how the Talmud puts the age of the universe at over 14 billion years (in our terms), not 5776 years. The latter number is since the creation of Man (and is, I would contend, the time since God put a soul in a human creature). There is PLENTY of room for lots of evolution, both here and elsewhere. How dare you put limits on what God can create!