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Jews believe that God is creator of the universe.

However, Jews do not believe in a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative, and Judaism is not in contradiction to the scientific model that states that the age of the universe is about 13. 75 billion years old.

Norbert M. Samuelson writes: "… this question of dating the universe has never been a problem of Jewish philosophy, ultimately because that philosophy … has never taken the literal meaning of the Bible to be its revealed, true meaning.

" Rabbi Marc D. Angel writes that " There has been a general reluctance in Jewish tradition to speculate on the metaphysical aspects of creation ," and that " the general Jewish attitude throughout the ages has been that God created the world ex nihilo and further notes: