Where Do We Come From?

When people first started to think about how the Earth was created, there were many different theories and stories that varied greatly from place to place. The Native American Tribes, for example, all had very different views and opinions on how everything began. The Onondaga Tribe was a polytheistic group located in present-day central New York State, and they had very different views compared to the Christians, who have a monotheistic religion. The Christian religion was centered mostly in Europe, where it had a large amount of followers. The Native Americans and the Europeans lived a great distance from each other and didn’t even know of each other’s existence until the late 1400s. Though the two have

the earth on a whole or just the people of the earth. The basis of

For thousands of years, scientists have tried to interpret the concept of creation. However, before people had access to modern scientific equipment, they told creations stories. A creation story is a myth that explains how and why the earth was made. A few cultures with differing opinions on creation are Europeans, Cherokee Indians, West Africans, and Hawaiians. Europeans tell the story of Genesis and God creating the earth in seven days and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Cherokee Indians believe that the earth was created by a water beetle. In West African culture, they teach the Golden Chain story, and Hawaiians have the Kumulipo story to explain their beliefs on creation. Although each story follows a basic guideline, they all have distinct disparities.

As humans evolved in different parts of the world, and became more self-aware and self-sufficient, it was only natural for curiosity to develop as to our origin-where we came from and why we are here. Human nature implores us to seek understanding of such topics. Each civilization came up with their own explanation for the creation of humanity, with the majority involving some sort of 'gods' who display capabilities and knowledge greater than that of ordinary people. In the early days, stories were passed along through oral tradition. This allows for the possibility of exaggeration and changes in detail as stories passed from generation to generation. Eventually with a rise in the art of writing, these stories were recorded and preserved for

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.

Where do we come from? The creation of the world has been told through many different stories, and from a variety of religions across the world. The argument between evolution and creation has been debated back and forth for years. So how do we know which claim is correct? Has all life evolved from simple bacteria to all the species that appear today, or did life on earth begin with God's creation of Adam from dust and his partner Eve from adam’s rib bone. As a child I grew up attending church every Sunday with my grandparents, attending bible school, and taught the ways of the Lord. I wouldn’t know any different until my eyes were opened in biology class where the theory of Evolution is justified. There are different explanations to

The question of origins is one of the four main questions in life. Where did I come from? The answer Christianity provides is creation. In Genesis 1:1-2, a Christian learns that God created the world out of nothing. God spoke all things into existence. He also created man in his image with a special purpose. God created man in his likeness in order for an individual to share some of his same attributes; such as having compassion, mercy, grace, fellowship,

The Native Americans and Europeans had many influences that affected their outlook when they first encountered one another. These influences have different stories and views that pertain to the origin of life and how the earth was created. For example the Native Americans had stories that were passed down from generations that would be reshaped in different tellings. On the contrary the European Christians obtained their stories from books that had been written in earlier years such as the bible and Aristotle’s work. Despite their differences all of their beliefs were affected by the accounts which then made their encounter with each other and the relationship with human beings.

Throughout history, a number of different cultures have developed their own versions to how the world began. Two to be compared are the Genesis account, found in the Bible and the Mayan creation story, known as the Popul Vuh (Book of the Community). From reading these accounts of creation, one can achieve a deeper understanding of the people that the story was written for, including their beliefs, values, and traditions. Not only that, the similarities between the two stories just seem to prove that overall, everything points to God, the Creator.

The Christian world view tells us in Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (ESV). This is the basis for our real story of how the world begun. The world on the other hand has many different stories, some believe we evolved from apes after a cosmic big bang created the universe, some believe in their own deity who created the world. As Bartholomew and Goheen point out, in today’s world there is a commitment to pluralism. They state that this world believes that we “should not even look for any such overarching story, one that could be true for all people, all communities, all nations – for to find such a thing would imply that not all stories are equally valid” (Bartholomew & Goheen, 2009, p. 12).

In Genesis, the first book of The Bible the Christian and Jewish creation story is told. God spoke and his Word was done. He made the heavens and the earth. He made light and drove away the dark. On the earth he created the waters and lands and man and beast.

Creation stories are common among different cultures, but the Greek and Genesis creation stories have both similarities and differences in how they began and how humans were created.

We probably all believe that we got here either, by accident, being created by a superior being or both. The Jews and Christians both believe that they were created by a superior being named: God. The Judeo-Christian tradition is that God created the earth over the course of six days and that He rested on the seventh day. Genesis 1 also states that He made man in His own image, this is something that I agree with as a Christian. However how do others believe we got here? They either believe that we arrived here by accident, or by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, that is mentioned in his book The Origin of Species by Natural Selection. These ideas have been around for more than 250 years and people have seemed to side with either the Judeo-Christian tradition or Darwin’s theory of creation.

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

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