In fact, the Bible clearly states that it is the Seas that brought forth the life, and the Earth. (In that actual order, too, btw!)
Doesn't say that God created it directly. Says the ocean and land produced life. Eerie, eh?
Name another religion that describes the creation of the world in the correct order!
Genesis even (correctly!) claims the first thing to be created was LIGHT. Everything followed after, and still in the correct order that our scientists tell us happened: Molten Earth, empty ("without form and void"), then stars (which were not visible due to opaque atmosphere--again, just as science tells us--then plants, then animals, and finally, man.
Would it not make sense, as some religions have it, to CREATE MAN FIRST, and have him an observer, given a special place to assist the gods, as is done in some other religions?
How 'bout havin' Earth rest on the back of a giant turtle? Or suspended from a giant tree? Both, as in some other religions.
The creation accounts of some of these other religions are hilariously funny. That of Geneis mirrors our scientific understanding as it exists today. No other religion's creation account even comes close, which immediately "flags" Genesis as distinct from other accounts.
Please explain how the author of Genesis could have guessed so correctly on so many matters. Too coincidental, and I am not one for coincidence.
Considering that Genesis wasn't written to be an explanation of how/why of everything, but only as a quick genealogical explanation of the history of people, and you have to wonder how much more detail could have been provided to us about science...if the intention of the author of Genesis were to focus on science. Posted on 01/23/2005 7:20:22 AM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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"In fact, the Bible clearly states that it is the Seas that brought forth the life, and the Earth. (In that actual order, too, btw!) "
It also says the earth was created before the stars, get a grip man.