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Origin Story Research Paper

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Origin stories are explanations of how something came to be. Superheroes have origin stories on how they obtained their powers, but the universe also has many different varying origin stories on how everything started. People made these stories to give others an explanation of how things became what they are. Many cultures have different stories, but were made with the same purpose of explaining creation. Some stories are slightly different from others because before they were written down most origin stories were told orally. No origin story is permanently right or wrong, humans are discovering new things about the universe that can change the modern theory of how the universe was created. The modern scientific origin story uses evidence to …show more content…

The modern scientific story is made from scientist and conclusions to experiments that support the ideas of the Big Bang Theory. Unlike the Chinese story the modern scientific story is fairly new and always changing with the new evidence that arises. The modern scientific story is that the universe started with a big bang from one little tiny point. The Chinese story is about a egg that held yin yang opposites that made chaos and also the man Pan Gu. When the egg broke Pan Gu separated the chaos and made the sky and earth, he grew taller making the earth bigger. When Pan Gu died parts of him became the mountains and the rivers. The Chineses might have come to this conclusion because eggs are a symbol of new birth in cultures and which might be why the universe came out of an egg. The back-stories are not the only thing that are different between modern science and the Chinese origin …show more content…

Both stories have the universe being made by one thing, while the modern story says a tiny point the Chineses story says an egg. While both things are different it is interesting that both stories have the universe starting from one spot. Also the modern scientific story says that while the universe was being formed energy was everywhere causing chaos with explosions and creations of things just like in the Chineses story where the egg was filled with chaos. Both stories have the universe started with chaos until things calmed down. Both stories have humans evolving from animals. The modern scientific story says humans evolved from monkeys and apes, while the Chineses story says humans evolved from fleas and ticks. It is interesting that both stories have similarities at all since each stories was formed thousands of years apart and when

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