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To: Tomax
If we are all to believe in creation, the real battle is to determine which creation. Is this the one?


Tsimshian Creation Story

At the beginning of the world it was covered in darkness. A chief, a chieftianess and son lived at Kungalas. Although the child was greatly loved, he died without cause. The whole tribe mourned each day beside the boy's lifeless body. One morning instead of her dead son the chieftainess witnessed the rising of a boy out of her son's body which burned brightly. She was overjoyed to see her son come back to life. This glowing boy grew large until his father began to call him a giant. Giant boy ate most of the tribe's food, so his father sent him over the sea to find more to eat. Giant boy flew inland and took with him a stone, a raven blanket and a dried bladder full of berries. He dropped the stone in the ocean and rested upon it. Each time he dropped a stone and rested he created a new rocky island. Giant Boy scattered the berries across the land and created a forest filled with fruit. He scattered the salmon roe and trout roe into the rivers to create an abundance of fish. From this day Giant Boy never lacked food in the new world.


17 posted on 08/04/2005 8:32:17 AM PDT by Coyoteman
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To: Coyoteman

Still perpetrating this strawman fallacy, I see, even though it has been refuted by demonstrating that the judeo-Christian creation story is unique in its lack of sensationalist treatment of nature as part of the creation story.


35 posted on 08/04/2005 9:14:59 AM PDT by frgoff
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To: Coyoteman; Tomax
"If we are all to believe in creation, the real battle is to determine which creation. Is this the one? Tsimshian Creation Story ..."

You'll find the answer to those kinds of questions here

50 posted on 08/04/2005 11:05:07 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law overarching rulers and ruled alike)
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