Page "Jewish views on evolution" Paragraph 36

: The Torah's story of creation is not intended as a scientific treatise, worthy of equal time with Darwin's theory of evolution in the curriculum of our public schools.

The notes it strikes in its sparse and majestic narrative offer us an orientation to the Torah's entire religious worldview and value system.

Creation is taken up first not because the subject has chronological priority but rather to ground basic religious beliefs in the very nature of things.

And I would argue that their power is quite independent of the scientific context in which they were first enunciated.