If we went back to the beginning?...?

Question

What would the creation look like? (According to the creationists)
The theory of evolution, despite the gaps in the fossil record, debate over whether complex structures could evolve as the result of random mutation and natural selection can be readily VISUALISED.
For a proper reasoned debate, surely we need a proper visual representation of the origins of life from the creationist point of view?
Genesis provides a very sketchy view of the creation.
No, honestly, this is not an intellectual trap or strait-jacket for fundamentalists, to expose them to ridicule and abuse for their simple-mindedness, ignorance and bigotry. (unless of course they betray this by their replies!)

Oshawama2 thnx for website! However it does not even begin to address the question. For example the critique of the evolutionary origins of humans- nowhere does it account for the fossil remains of bipedal creatures( as evidenced by their skeletal remains) with brain capacities intermediate between modern chimpannzees and humans for example.
It looks as if the main thesis of the site is that evolution theory is an attack on the bible and the existence of god, which is neither true nor fair. Surely we can come up with better than this!

Answer 1

Buddha would say questions like this have nothing to do with the spiritual life.

Answer 2

I believe the understanding of creation and evolution can best be assimilated in one consistent truth by putting the two together. Instead of presenting the positions as "either or" it is more like "all of the above." I don't see the purpose in limiting the wonder of the universe to one view or the other, as neither can possibly capture all of it.

My visualization of creation is that it is symbolically as in the Bible, that in the mind of God, all is created at once, but linearly these things could come about in steps -- that humanity was brought up from the dust, etc.

So I believe there can be both creation and evolution, and there does not need to be any contradiction. The same story can be told literally, as in a news report, or figuratively as a symbolic poem; and it is still the same story.

As for the comment on what Buddha might say, I don't think he would deny the whole question, but embrace it as part of the search for wisdom and understanding. I think he would recommend not attaching oneself to one viewpoint or another, but to let go of both in order to receive a fuller appreciation of the truth. Since any one person's viewpoint is too limited to encompass universal truth, Buddha advised his followers not to become too attached to one's perception of truth, but to let it evolve. Perhaps by putting the different pieces together, collectively we can get a better picture of the whole; so that out of the current lines of thought, a new lineage can develop that takes the best of all its predecessors. If evolutionists believe in survival of the fittest, surely the way of thinking that satisfies the standards of religion and science would survive as the dominant philosophy, while the other ways that contradict one or the other would die out.

Answer 3

This is my take on it:
In the beginning , the heavens and earth were still one and all was chaos. The universe was like a big black egg, carrying Pan Gu inside itself. After 18 thousand years Pan Gu woke from a long sleep. He felt suffocated, so he took up a broadax and wielded it with all his might to crack open the egg. The light, clear part of it floated up and formed the heavens, the cold, turbid matter stayed below to form earth. Pan Gu stood in the middle, his head touching the sky, his feet planted on the earth. The heavens and the earth began to grow at a rate of ten feet per day, and Pan Gu grew along with them. After another 18 thousand years, the sky was higher, the earth thicker, and Pan Gu stood between them like a pillar 9 million li in height so that they would never join again.

When Pan Gu died, his breath became the wind and clouds, his voice the rolling thunder. One eye became the sun and on the moon. His body and limbs turned to five big mountains and his blood formed the roaring water. His veins became far-stretching roads and his muscles fertile land. The innumerable stars in the sky came from his hair and beard, and flowers and trees from his skin and the fine hairs on his body. His marrow turned to jade and pearls. His sweat flowed like the good rain and sweet dew that nurtured all things on earth. According to some versions of the Pan Gu legend, his tears flowed to make rivers and radiance of his eyes turned into thunder and lighting. When he was happy the sun shone, but when he was angry black clouds gathered in the sky. One version of the legend has it that the fleas and lice on his body became the ancestors of mankind.

http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/ariel.htm

Honestly, i've thought long and hard. Been trying to visualize it all these years. But i always end up with a mental picture of boiling lava with lumps of rock in it here and there.
Thing with me is that i don't dispute evolution. But I do believe there is a lot more to 'life' than we can even begin to understand.

Answer 4

I am enclosing a web site that will answer most of your questions. This site contains the results of top scientists who are researching proof of creation theories.

Answer 5

science deals with what it might have really been like

religion has nice stories with morals and all that

don't try to find morals in pure science either