\b0 Is it possible that God created the world in seven days? In this case,
seven days is understood as a conventional expression, part of a literary genre, as scholars tell us. Seven is the number of days in the week which the Jewish tradition considers an elementary unit of time. In other words, to say that the world was cre
ated in seven days is to say it was created in a very brief yet complete period of time. On the sixth day of this week, God created man. Why should this man be called Adam? In Hebrew, the word \i adam\i0 means, simply, human being or man. The name Eve
also has a metaphorical sense: in Hebrew it means she who gives life, i.e., mother.\par