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    the difference between myths and theories? Well that’s an easy question to answer isn’t it; myths involve fiction while theories involve facts‚ we should not make any parallels between science and superstition. There‚ we’ve answered the question‚ or have we? Although many people will agree that myth and theory are two totally different things‚ I would debate that the line between the two is much thinner than one would think. In fact in some cases the line is inexistent and myths make up theory‚ just

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    Young Earth Creation Recently‚ new speculation has shown that mother earth may in fact not be 4.5 billion years old‚ as has been taught in schools for many generations. However‚ young earth creationist believe that the world is only approximately six thousand years old. According to the Christian Bible‚ if we were to follow the chronology of many of its books including Genesis‚ Exodus‚ Galatians and 1 Kings‚ we would gather a general timeline of when God created the universe and the Earth. No

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    The Creation Of The Universe‚ The Earth‚ And Human Beings In the beginning there was only darkness. For many millions of years this darkness remained. There were no stars‚ no sun‚ and no earth. But one day something very special happened. The darkness created light. It was a very small amount of light but it was just enough. The light became the husband of the dark. After a long while both the light and the dark became bored. The light began to insult the dark and the light replied with equally

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    The native American tribe known as the Iroquois‚ have a unique creation story. For this story sky‚ people and water exist but there is no land to speak of. It’s funny how most creation stories start off with the earth and sky already in existence. The Iroquois story starts with sky people that live high above the waters in the clouds. The sky people could not die‚ have children or experience sadness. Nonetheless; one day a sky woman realized she had become pregnant with twins. When she told her husband

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    The following are a creation story which is like a religion. Yes‚ it’s not the same as now but they are called creation stories . A creation myth is a narrative of how the world began and how people first came to it. The stories that my class read was Gaia a Greek story‚ The Golden Chain is a Yoruba‚ West African story‚ The Story of Corn and Medicine‚ Cherokee story‚ Pan Gu and Nü Wa‚ China story. The story in this essay will be writing about is Cherokee and West Africa creation stories. Although

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    I think that the Mayan creation story‚ has many similarities to Judo-Christian versions of the creation story. For example the creation story that is included in the bible is set over a series of days. The Mayan creation story takes place over a series of days. One part that stood out to me as very similar was that the last day in both man was created. In the Mayan version it is referred to the birth of life and man is created. In the Judo-Christian version man is created when Adam and Eve were created

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    When the Bible speaks of creation it simply declares that God spoke the world into existence. Over the years man has theorized variations of the creation teaching instead of trusting the Holy Spirit’s statements of creation. The “day-age theory” actually links the creation with evolution. In this theory the day is not literal but figurative‚ thereby allowing for long period of time for each day. This would allow the humanistic theory of evolution to be inserted into the creation story. This theory is

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    Creation Story The selection "The Iroquois Creation Story" is very much similiar to the bibles version of how the Earth was created. In "The Iroquois story" there was a woman who gives birth to two boys and shorty after falls to her demise. She gave birth to a good and evil son. The good son is the creator of good and uses his parents remains to creat the sun‚ moon and stars. He also goes along to create insects and animals to inhibit and live in the different habitats he created such as rivers

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    The myths Zulu and Egyptian The two myths of creation that I have chosen to write about are Zulu and Egyptian. In the Egyptian myth‚ the beginning comes from the dark swirling waters of chaos. This place is called Nu out of Nu came to Atum from the sheer force of his will using his thoughts. The creation of the earth came from his children Shu‚ his son‚ and Tefnut was his daughter these two created everything in the heaven and earth. The way this was done their father gave them the task to divide

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    I. Introduction The topic of my comparative essay will be to compare and contrast the different viewpoint of the nebular hypothesis (old-earth secular view) vs. six day creation (young-earth view) on the topic original creation of the earth. For Christians‚ the only answer would be that God created the Earth and everything in it in six days. To the old-earth believers they believe the nebular hypothesis came from a cloud of dust and gas. II. Old-Earth Secular view The Old-Earth secular view that

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