(GENESIS 1:3)
Rashi explains that the intention of the Torah was not necessarily to present events in chronological order. (For example, the creation of water, among other things, is not mentioned at all.) Rather the meaning is, "In the beginning of the creation of Heaven and Earth, God said let there be light." When the Sages were ordered to translate the Bible into Greek for the Egyptian king Ptolemy (known as the Septuagint) they changed the opening verse to read "God created in the beginning," shifting the emphasis to the actual creation. To the believer it is obvious that the world was created.
A Small Analogy: Let's say the first man on the moon finds a box of Kellogg's corn flakes with English letters. He immediately assumes that someone beat him there, rather than looking for theories how the box may have spontaneously randomly evolved. Next he finds a plastic model of a heart, with red dye and a battery causing it to continuously beat. That certainly didn't "evolve"; he sees the obvious planning and design involved in its manufacture. Finally he comes across a real human heart with muscles and blood. Imagine him saying: "Oh, that's no problem. It randomly evolved!"
Rabbi Avi Geller
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