(April 25, 2013 at 2:04 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Writers with the ability to think more creatively should have been chosen to write the mythology.
That's what you get when the various writers have differing agendas. The first creation account is very bland. God creates everything by request, and he likes it, then he finishes up and relaxes. The second account provides a more active god and adds the story of Adam and Eve, which is plenty creative.
You see that dichotomy throughout. Lots of boring lists, punctuated by stories which are by turns interesting or dramatic or disturbing. If Quentin Tarantino had decided to make Inglorious Basterds as a religious book instead of a movie, it would have a strong resemblance to the Bible.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
