(February 6, 2012 at 1:34 am)genkaus Wrote:(February 6, 2012 at 12:44 am)brotherlylove Wrote: If you want to argue it that way, the scriptures and oral traditions of judaism go back to Adam and Eve. Hinduism is a post-flood religion.
Actually, your god created Adam and Eve only 6000 yrs ago. The Hindu god created Manu and Sati about 4 billion years ago. Your religion is still in its diapers compared to Hinduism.
Hinduism actually tries to explain the origins of the universe; the beginning of time, the origin of god itself. Your religion abruptly begins for no reason; when a god lying dormant for eon suddenly decides to make the world for no reason whatsoever and in 6 days. (yes that's 6 human days, FYI. Hinduism gives the creation timescale in periods of millions/billions of years; so do some other religions. I am dumbfounded why your god keeps his timescale cryptic; for some its measured in human years, for others, its god years).
Hinduism divides time into a scale known as yuga's. Some sects believe that the last yuga actually ended some 6000 to 10000 years ago; the transition was marked by a great flood. Looks like Christianity borrowed the flood story from the Hindu scriptures and the new yuga is actually the beginning of the Christianity era; thus the beginning of creation, as interpreted by your bible.
And yes, the same god who created the whole universe from virtually nothing needed the rib of man in order to create women.