Analyzing The Beginning Of Science

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. The Earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep”. There are many stories that talk about how the Earth are created and they all vary depending on the beliefs of the writers. In these stories there are many similarities but there are also a few differences. A good example of these similarities can be found in a few creation stories such as Genesis, Creation by the Hopi, and The World on the Turtle’s Back by the Iroquois. In these three stories there are differences and similarities found when looking at how the Earth was created, where all the evil and good came about from, and how all of the animals got their names.

The first group of Native Americans, the Maidu origin story began with a turtle and the turtle was talking to Earth Initial. The turtle helps the Earth Initial by swimming to the bottom of the sea and the Earth Initial used the dirt under the turtle’s nails to create the earth. Additionally, Earth Initial invited his sister which is the sun and the moon his brother and that was the beginning of the earth. While in the Christian origin story the earth, heaven, sun, moon and stars were created by God.

In 1600 BC it was completely dark outside. No one lived and nothing roamed the earth. The earth was created by the land and water god and the nature was created by the nature god. What had not yet been created was the sun and the moon. Later in 1700 BC the god of making human life created 2 people.

-The Environmental Working Group runs this website which consists on board members and many others conducting the experiments. The credentials of the organization running the site make the information presented reliable. This is because most or all of the board members are experts and also the information is very reliable with several different resources the back the evidence found.

“Creation Myth” is a Lakota Sioux legend that depicts the creation of the Earth, per this tribe’s tradition. The world, as it is known today, was not the Creating Power’s first creation: “There was another world before this one”. The Creating Power had created a world before but was displeased with how the people behaved so he sang songs to the rain that caused it to pour so hard that the earth split apart and water filled the surface, drowning almost every creature; only Kangi the crow survived. Creation began when, after Kangi pleaded for a place to rest, the Creation Power gave four animals, that he selected from his pipe bag, a task: “He sent each in turn to retrieve a lump of mud from beneath the flood waters.” The loon, the otter, and the beaver failed; but the turtle, who spent a long time underwater, succeeded in collecting the mud. The Creating Power modeled the mud while laying it out in the water, and then, with two eagle feathers, he spread it out so it would cover the water’s surface; like this, he created the Earth. Filled with sadness after seeing the dry land, he created lakes, oceans and streams by crying. At last, he created men by using black, white, yellow and red earth. He gave men his pipe and told them to live by it and warned them of the consequences if they strayed from honorable behavior: “But the world would be destroyed again if they made it bad and ugly.”

Although a lot of other cosmogonic myths have presented creations as part of a natural process that has the clear understanding that it is an act of divine and creative will. We all know there are several creation myths across different cultures. It is known that every different culture even has its unique creation myth that also explains how life and world came to be (Leonard & McClure, 2004). The two myths I would talk about when it comes to this topic are Genesis creation (Hebrew origin) of the Christian culture, and the Norse culture of Iceland (the Vikings). From the readings of both, both myths also start with an emptiness where conflict and chaos may even eventually develop. The Genesis conflict is between God, loneliness, blackness, emptiness, and the need to create

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. After having created everything on Earth, He made man. “The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’”(NIV Genesis 2:15). Thus, He made Eve from the rib of Adam. God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of knowledge but the evil serpent, who was craftier than them, tricked Eve into eating the fruit. Eve later convinced Adam after having argued with him and he gave in. Both were punished by God for having gone against His word and would suffer the consequences of it. “So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After He drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden a cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life” (Genesis 3:23-24).

We all know that our mothers and fathers gave us birth, and grandmothers and grandfathers gave our parents birth. However, what about the beginning? What does the beginning look like? Who created the sky, the earth, the mountains and rivers, the plants, the animals, and the human beings? How was the world created? What happened to the creator? These questions have puzzled and are asked by every people. However, no one has yet found the answers, and I have heard people saying that the creation of life is as impossible as the natural creation of an airplane from a stack of waste. With the willingness of knowing the self, ancient people tried to create mythological stories

How were human beings created? How has life come to be? How was the earth created? These are some very important questions that humans have tried to answer for ages. In an attempt to answer these questions, different cultures around the world developed different beliefs. Some believe that they are many gods watching over them, while others believe that there is only one supreme God. Some believe that humans were created by an explosion while others believed that a God or gods created them. Today, I will be analyzing two different creation stories, Genesis, the Christian creation story and “The Creation and Emergence” story by the Jicarilla Apaches. While some differences between the two are evident, the similarities are noticeable.

Capital punishment is one of the most controversial ethical issues that our country faces these days. Capital punishment is the legal penalty of death for a person that has performed heinous acts in the eyes of the judicial system. Discussion on whether capital punishment is humane or considered cruel and unusual punishment has been the main issue this of debate for years. Recent discussion goes far beyond the act itself but now brings into question whether medical personal should aid in this practice.

Ancient Greece has to offer some of the most interesting pieces of culture. Culture in Ancient Greece can be very similar and very, very different to our modern day society. Women roles in Ancient Greek culture were very limited at the time especially in Athens. In Athens women were only expected to have children but specifically male children. Women that were citizens of Athens could partake in some public functions and or religious groups but for the most part they were out casted from society.

Where did humans come from? This is a question that is common throughout time. Mankind hungers to know where they came from in order to know where they are going. There are those that believe that humans evolved from apes, or that they sprang forth from some primordial cesspool. According to Genesis 2:7, God created man from the earth in his image. He breathed the breath of life into him and humans were given dominion over the earth. Job 10: 8-12 describes how God molded man like clay and pieced him together with muscle, sinew, and skin (Holy Bible: American Standard Version, 1995).

In the beginning there was nothing, except God. God made everything out of nothing. He made the heavens, earth, and all things. It took him 6 days and on the seventh day he rested.

One of the fundamental questions that religions seek to answer is that of origin. How was man put on earth? Why and from what was he created? Who created him? What does his creation imply about the status of human beings? Some or all of these questions are answered by a religion’s creation stories. Every religion’s creation myths attempt to give solutions to problems present to that religious society. Because of this, each religion may have one or more creation stories, each of those different from one another in the questions they ask and the answers they give.

The Question of Origin. There are many beliefs as to where we came from. Naturalism believes that we “evolved” from a simpler life form or by accident (All About Worldview: Where Did we Come From?, 2015). That we exist because of science. Pantheism believes that everything exists together. That life is a circle (Rusbult, n.d.). Theism is the belief that there is something greater that created everything (Rusbult, n.d.). According to the Bible (Gen. 1:26-27), God created man