Do people in the Jewish faith believe the Genesis account of Creation is literal?
Some do; most do not. I certainly doubt that any non-Orthodox Jews believe the Genesis account of creation is to be taken literally. But even in the Orthodox community, it is quite common to believe that the Creation did not take place in six twenty-four hour days. When I was in yeshiva I was taught that some of the traditional commentators had said that “a day of G-d is not like a day of a human being” and that the process of creation could well have taken billions of years.
