God's work week

Anybody find it odd that God (or G_d as some of the twits posting here
like to call Him) fitted his Creation into a 7-day week -- six days for
the hard work of creating, and one day to take it easy. Why not 5 days
or 10 days? Or better yet, why not instantaneously?

Some of the lighter sources I've seen give Moses -- that apocryphal
biblical figure -- credit for inventing the idea of the 7-day week and
giving it to the Hebrews, from whence it spread to the Roman world and
eventually down to the present day. It would sort of make sense that
Moses was only doing what God told him to do in popularizing the week.

However, apparently both the Hindus and the Babylonians were using the
7-day week before the Hebrews adopted it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

Does that mean that the Hindus and the Babylonians knew about the God of
Genesis somehow and adopted his time plan? Or is this just a incredible
coincidence?

God did a rather slapdash job in designing the cycles of the sun, moon
and earth. If He had put a little more thought into it, a lunar month
would be precisely 28 days or four weeks long, and there would be 13
lunar months in a solar year. That would make the solar year exactly 52
weeks or 364 days long. Had God done this, calendar keeping would have
been a whole lot easier. Each year would start on end on the same day
of the week.


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