Every civilization has had its own creation story. Why assume that Christianity has the only correct creation story? Why assume that the Big Bang or evolution is the only correct story?

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Most, if not all creation myths do not have evidence to back it up. The Big Bang and evolution have the laws and theories of science to show that they are the most likely path that life in the universe and on earth has taken. The other myths are just that myths, stories to help explain life when no other explanation was available.

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The evidence in favour of all creation stories is the fact that we are here, that the World exists. That's pretty much incontrovertible evidence, don't you think?

The Big Bang explains why some incidental things are there -- the rapid movement of all galazies, the fact that all of them are moving apart, the cosmic back ground radiation -- which were far beyond the ken of earlier cosmologists.

Evolution is not a "creation story" but a story about the cause of the diversity of living things. Evolution is silent about the origin of life itself; a point to many people miss.

Both the Big Bang, and evolution are very good stories, and I like them and think they fit pretty well... but in 300 years they may be thought laughably unscientific, as the state of scientific knowledge expands. And, if it does not, they may well be discarded in favour of the older stories -- our belief that the human mind can comprehend the whole universe is fairly recent, and pretty arrogant.

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the world around him and the skies beyond him. I have even looked up into the skies and played around with my own ignorant childish stories for my younger brothers and sister whom I had to take care of a lot when we all were kids. I have even done it with my daughters, letting them know that I was telling a story only and that nobody knew what happened really.

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From a scientific perspective, there's really not much doubt about the Big Bang and there's no doubt that evolution has and is taking place. But neither really answers the question as to how it all began or even if it all did have a beginning. It is quite possible that energy/matter may well go back into infinity as many cosmologists hypothesize. And even if one believes in a deity or deities, how did they begin-- or did they have a beginning?

I have a feeling these questions will never be answered because the minute we answer one question, it just generates many more.

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Good point L.K.

Can we live and be happy, without knowing the truth about creation? Why is it so important to us?

I personally believe we create moment to moment, past, present and future. So fast that we can't percieve it with our senses. In a book I was reading, it stated that we are the space between breathing in and out. How many of us are even aware that this space exists?

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