2006-08-06 03:51:55 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The creation story is a myth. I use this term in the classical sense. It is a story that attempts to explain the world around it. At the time, that the bible's 3 creation stories were written (there are actually 3 of them back to back in Genesis), there were many creation stories. Actually it was a very popular genre.
So to look at the bible for a scientific explanation of the world, would be an improper usage of the story. Obviously believers hold that God did it. However to say, that creation happened in 7 days because that is how it is written in the bible would unacademic and illogical.
In one, we were the product of god's feces. One we were the product of a lesser god's accident. And so on.
So the wonderous part of the creation story is that there is one, but rather that it's message is very different from the rest of that time.
You see a myth wants to explain a couple of things:
1- who people are
2- our relationship to Creator
3- why world is full of suffering
The difference between the bible story and the other ones of that time is that in the Bible, creation is said to good, and humans are VERY good. (The creation of humans is the first time that the adjective very is used.)
So we are good, and we have a loving relationship to Creator. The world gets screwed up by our (or rather the first discernible people) rejecting God (sin). This has two effects. First is the first sin, and second is the cosmological shift that occurred that has affected everyone for the rest of history as a effect of rejecting God.
Hope that helps.
God Bless,
Vic
2006-08-06 04:18:23 · answer #1 · answered by Vic 3 · 4⤊ 4⤋
There's only a few pages vaguely describing the creation of man and the universe. Everything else was started by the Catholic Church like thinking the earth was the center of the universe, etc. It's crap, I can't see how the bible enforces creationism exclusively and discounts evolution. Maybe god thought "Eh, I'll just breeze past the start, it's not that important anyway. Only a bunch of dumbasses would worry about this anyway....."
2006-08-06 11:00:32 · answer #2 · answered by ashton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Creation
2006-08-06 10:55:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible says we were created from the dust by God. Evolution was made up to explain how we got here to people who didn't believe. That's all. I'm not saying evolution is fake completely, but how could we know all that went on back then for sure?
2006-08-06 11:01:21 · answer #4 · answered by c h u r r o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer what the scientific method says about evolution. After a hundred of years of inquiry, not one shred of evidence. Evolution isn't a theory. It's a hypothesis that has been proven false.
Note that this says nothing about the validity of creationism. There essentially is no conflict between theology and science...and never was.
2006-08-06 10:57:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible states that God made man as a man, not some creature evolved from another. It also says that every animal was created "according to its kind", again, with NO mention of anything having evolved from another species.
The Bible makes NO allowance for the ridiculous theory of evolution. And that's all evolution is....a crackpot THEORY.
2006-08-06 10:55:12 · answer #6 · answered by X 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible does not have a position on evolution, so it cannot be used to compare the two. Similarly, the Bible does not have positions on automobiles, jets, space travel, stem cells, and millions of other concepts. Someday people will use the Bible to expand their spirituality, and not try to pass judgement on modern thought and philosophy with words written thousands of years ago, and based on their interpretation of it.
2006-08-06 11:01:10 · answer #7 · answered by comeKK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that the Bible actually says anything about evolution, but these questions you're asking make me want to take classes on Bible interpretation and such. I believe that God created the world in all of its complex ways so that we would search and search and ultimately find Him at the beginning and end of it. I may end up a Bible scholar someday...thanks!
2006-08-06 11:00:08 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ Luveniar♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not for anyone to decide what the Bible position is. Because different people may explain the Bible differently. The current & 2 previous US presidents, however, as well as ICTY "judges & prosecuters", are proof for evolution.
2006-08-06 10:58:52 · answer #9 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world was created iin 6 days. Evolution takes more time than that. The world is less than 10,000 years old--not millions or even billions like some people think.
2006-08-06 10:57:27 · answer #10 · answered by Michelle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋