Heres a link to a story that explains how zebras got their stripes. Many native american tribes created stories like this to explain different things in their lives.
http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends/zebrahow.html
If you dont want to read it, basically it just says that zebras got their stripes from getting all the zebras everywhere to paint themselves with stripes, because it looked better than just white.
Granted, it was written by an 8th grader, but many people long ago used to wrote stories similar to this, and believed in them just as much as a Christian might believe in creationism.
Is that story really that much more ridiculous than proposing that Adam and Eve single handedly repopulated the whole world in a couple thousand years or so, and that most of us happened to turn out normal despite the fact that we all share the same two ancestors?
2007-02-13 08:48:00 · 15 answers · asked by this Mike guy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You do not know the power of God and for all you know that is exactly what happened! When you know God to be true and have experienced his power, nothing is impossible. Perhaps to unbelievers, but not for people who know better.
2007-02-13 09:04:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-09-29 01:53:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have a better idea than one first couple? The genes would have been almost perfect, as people lived close to 1000 years.
2007-02-13 08:52:21 · answer #3 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every read the "Just So" stories by Rudyard Kipling? Brilliant. "How the Elephant got his Nose" is my favouite.
The Australian Aboriginals think we were laid by a giant sanke, or something. Amazingly, the Irish don't because there are no snakes in Ireland. What does that tell you?
2007-02-13 08:54:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think that once there was a flood. The writers of the bible had to include it because everyone knew that it had happened. So they made up that preposterous tale of Noah. I wonder what was the inspiration for Jonah?
2007-02-13 08:56:10 · answer #5 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I hear some otherwise intelligent people actually saying 'is it black stripes on white or the other way around'
I shout at them (im easily irritated) and say how could it be a colour on top of the other? They're NOT PAINTED ON GODDAMMIT.
*are we skin with hair on or hair with skin around it? WHO GIVES A DAMN*
2007-02-13 08:51:18 · answer #6 · answered by Serpent 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
YOU CANNOT SERIOUSALLY SAY THAT A STORY WRITTEN BY AN 8TH GRADER IS THE SAME AS ORAL TRADITION PASSED DOWN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS BY NATIVE PEOPLE!!!
That is ridiculous, incredibly racist, and INCREDIBLY IGNORANT!
You need to educate yourself about other people's cultures before speaking about them. This is SICK.
2007-02-13 18:19:51 · answer #7 · answered by RedPower Woman 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
**That is not a very good example, but i get your point. As a pagan, we see our myths simply as myths, stories to help us see and relate to different aspects of diety. There are many creation myths out there and whatever one beleives is fine, but to try and make one myth literal and force everyone to accept it is not right.*
2007-02-13 09:14:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
not the same at all
one set of stories is from the imagination of men
the Bible you assume with circular reasoning to be the same.... how... you assert it so...
Christians of course believe that the Bible is inspired by God.. and a very big difference is God was there and you were not
2007-02-13 08:54:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
So don't believe then, but I'm pretty sure you can come up with a better excuse than this!
2007-02-13 08:54:16 · answer #10 · answered by gtahvfaith 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋