Think about it. Every single ancient civilization had their own religion and ideas of how the world began. And yet, when you hear some of those stories, they are completely laughable concepts.
With that in mind, don't you think that, in the future (as if it hasn't already began now), today's ideas of God and creation will sound just as stupid as those of the past?
I mean, explaining day and night as "the moon and sun holding a grudge against each other and therefore not being able to share the same sky" is not as far-fetched as "God said "let there be light" and there being light, now is it?
2007-10-02 12:06:31 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How has Genesis been debunked? Try science.
Disproven by who? Try smart people.
All you people who are answering with questions just don't want to answer with the fact that you know I'm right.
Outsmarted by a fifteen year old.
2007-10-02 12:19:53 · update #1
Wait. Someone comments "It's too bad you don't have a mind of your own and accept things like evolution as fact."
I'm not even going to point out how WRONG that is coming from a Christian.
2007-10-02 12:30:33 · update #2
Any honest, intelligent person already knows that the biblical creation myth has been utterly disproven. The Earth has been conclusively shown to be well over 10,000 years old (which is the age that the bible alleges). I don't think any adult person truly believes in "Adam & Eve", a tree of knowledge and a talking snake. Does anybody really think that all of the world's languages came from "The Tower of Babel"?
When most people want to find out about the world around them, they will open up a science book not the bible.
2007-10-02 12:19:07 · answer #1 · answered by wee falorie man 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Very true! Even today's creation stories are being disproved. Intelligent design is a good example of that. As for the evidence we have to paint a scientific explanation for the creation of the universe, there are still many unanswered questions. The beginning of the universe and before the beginning of the universe, is still up for debate. We do have a much better view of the creation of the universe today, based on observation, physics, and mathematics; that gives us a much clearer picture of the creation of the universe, than ever before.
2007-10-02 12:20:04 · answer #2 · answered by straightshooter 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The current, scientific creation theory is that "we don't know what happened at the instant of the Big Bang, we only know what happened a short time later, and pretty much understand how we got from there to here." That's not going to be disproven. There is hope that we might learn more about the earliest instants of the Big Bang (and possibly "before", if there is a before), and we will fill in more of the details about how we got from there to here.
2007-10-02 12:18:00 · answer #3 · answered by cosmo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mainstream Asatru says that our creation myth is not accurate. We believe that how science says things happened is how they happened. Other parts involving Odin, etc. are just representational of what happened.
We have let go of certain concepts. like the old explanation of why the moon and sun are the way they are.
In response to dze. Asatruars dont think we have evolved beyond "the need of God(s)" only that the Gods want to see us evolve beyond the need of them. They are older and wiser then we are. However they were the same as us. and one day we shall be the same as they. The path is the path they walked. They walked alone, and so shall we.
It is the way of things. The tree sheltered by a taller tree must one day be free of its shadow and protection else it die. So are men.
Men do not "need" Divine intervention. Men need only intervention from the self. (I include women in this, but men sounds better) Only the strength of will.
2007-10-02 12:15:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Here's the basic concept. There must have been a Creator. Science is no further along discovering the origin of the Universe than it ever was. The primary theory of science holds that a big bang occurred and everything evolved from that. Well, it's pretty, as you put it, laughable to think that a universe this complex could be created by accident. Even if evolution is true, how did the big bang occur? What substances, in their simplest form, mixed to cause such an explosion? And where did these substances come from? It is an anti-science concept to claim that the explosion came from nothing. The only reasonable explanation is that there is a Creator.
2007-10-02 12:38:43 · answer #5 · answered by starfishltd 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Genesis has been disproven as a literal account only. The main point of the story has not. That point? God is the beginning and source of all things.
2007-10-02 12:14:06 · answer #6 · answered by ozchristianguy 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Genesis has already been thoroughly disproven. Only thick-headed people refuse to accept that.
2007-10-02 12:11:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Because God used acts of science that the creation story is really telling us, as time goes by modern science will only prove this story true and that it happened just the way God explains it in Genisis.
2007-10-02 12:27:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Let me get this right: you are 15 years old and think that you know it all? You really do have a lot to learn.
Why do you think there is so much controversy if the matter is firmly settled? Why are there famous evolutionists who totally reject Darwinism and neo-Darwinism? Stephen J Gould, for example.
What current creation stories (note:plural) do you have in mind that may yet be disproven? Please elaborate.
2007-10-02 13:46:09 · answer #9 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
No. The earliest creation stories have not been disproven. As far as I know nobody has dispelled that Saturn ate all his kids.
2007-10-02 12:11:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋