"Why must everyone say that? Yes, symbolically speaking. I always used to get furious with the nuns at school when they said that modern theology understood the Creation took more than seven days, that it was all symbolic. Why? Why should it? Perhaps billions of years of astrophysical and biochemical evolution is what seven days of God’s work looks like from inside. Or if you prefer: there’s a very real chance the basic unit of our universe is information. Meaning is as fundamental as matter."