Sentences with phrase «own creation stories»

India's legendary IT industrialist Narayana Murthy spoke to «Managing Asia» in 2011 about the key drivers behind one of the country's biggest wealth creation stories.

«I think one of my roles as a leader here is to keep the story of who we are — our creation story as well as our evolution — alive and vivid and active,» Jordan says.

The make - believe creation story is maintained as real throughout life.

Christ not only believed in the Creation story, He compared His return, when He will raise the dead (i.e. reap the earth), to the Great Flood as well as the destruction os Sodom and Gomorrah.

Just wondering, have you ever considered the possibility that Genesis is a creation story, just like so many other cultures have their own creation stories?

The creation story is, because it is nothing but magical thinking that detracts from empirical reality.

He also points put that there are 2 creation stories in Genesis (I think we all know that).

Secondly Christine, you said «there is no discussion of sex at all in the creation story (not till after the fall), only companionship.»

What i mean by this is that if u read the creation story in the bible, there is no mention that god created the solar system with the sun in the center, with the other planets, with us in the milky way galaxy, and all the other billions of galaxies.

because there is no discussion of sex at all in the creation story (not till after the fall), only companionship.

I find this an odd thing to say (although I certainly agree with the idea), because there is no discussion of sex at all in the creation story (not till after the fall), only companionship.

The purpose of the volume, according Harold Attridge, is to explore «the ongoing controversy in the United States about the relationship between science and religion, particularly evolutionary biology and traditional readings of the biblical creation story.»

I would hazard a guess that you think other creation stories are fanciful and silly while believing yours is «fact».

The entire premise of the bible creation story is FLAWED in it's entirety.

Dr. Joseph Mastropaolo, a man with a degree in kinesiology, is offering $ 10,000 to anyone who can «scientifically disprove the Bible's creation story.»

The Book of Bokonon has a whole bunch of cool tid bits to live by AND a creation story and since I'm a Bokononist, you have to take me seriously, now will you wait here why I go touch my feet with another bokononist, its a holy ritual.

Why does it have two different creation stories that do not match?

Then it follows that the citizens and taxpayers who are Muslim, Hindu, American Indian, Scientologist, etc. should have THEIR creation stories taught as fact also.

Chris: Darwin was fearful of his big idea because he still believed in the existence of the Christian god, and was extremely uncomfortable coming up with something that went against a literal interpretation of the creation story (I think.

fred, As you don't follow the OT, you don't believe the creation story or believe in the ten commandments?

There are hundreds of traditional creation stories that also call upon magical beings and gods to explain how the universe began.

In fact, the Genesis creation story implies that knowledge was the problem.

The creation story in the first chapter of Genesis depicts the creation of humankind as male and female, sexually differentiated and enjoined by God's grace to sustain human life through procreation.

How does the lack of evidence with Noah's Ark, the birth of Christ, the creation story and so forth actually prove that there is no God who wants us to rely on faith instead of assured knowledge.

In the case of creationism, for example, scientific evidence now exists which contradicts directly with the creation myth (unless one thinks of the creation story as being an allegory or something like that).

I also believe in God, and I respect the Bible as a work of inspiration, and a source of inspiration, but I don't believe it is necessarily historical, and I certainly don't believe its creation stories should be taken literally, since the various stories conflict with each other.

chris Nobody was around recording the events of the Genesis creation story either.

Noahs Ark has been proven false; virgin birth has been proven false; the creation story; the age of the earth... oh so many things and for you to deny the ACTUAL evidence is simply you being a narrow - minded, intellectually dishonest person.

In Levenson's reading, creation ex nihilo, in the sense of an instantaneous change from nothing to something, fails to capture the theological implication of the biblical creation story:

I still give praise to the Genesis creation story as it was «down to earth» for its time as to how life formed and not altogether out of date given today's more developed creation story.

God's creation metaphorically banished the monsters from the world in the biblical creation story.

And every single religion has / had a creation story.

To suggest science «compliments» the Biblical creation story is akin to suggesting the science investigating the mammalian physiology of Rangifer tarandus «compliments» the story of Santa Claus and Rudolph.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

You base your argument on the prohecies and creation stories, both of which have been shown to be untrue!

Its very first story, the creation story, is flawed.

But regarding the creation story, it makes specific factual claims (albeit, internally contradictory when comparing the two different creation narratives) regarding the order of creation which are directly contradicted by observable, physical evidence, e.g. earth before sun, the order of the appearance of particular forms of life, etc..

The creation story is there to reveal the important core, not the specific details.

«The creation story is taught in science and there is no evidence that pupils learn scientific theories about the origin of the Earth.»

(2) Evolution has often been taught with the implication that it was a rejection of the biblical creation account, by ignoring or dismissing the creation stories as prescientific myths surpassed by superior modern versions.

(Not to mention the six - day creation story and the stuffing of all land animals on a single boat.)

The relevant loci are the creation story, the Sixth Commandment, Ephesians 5 with its meditation on marriage as a sacramental sign of the union of Christ and his Church, the end of Revelation with its depiction of the marriage of the Lamb, and the whole narrative stream of Holy Scripture that assumes the heterosexual monogamous norm, despite the fact of royal and patriarchal polygamy.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

Children are impressed with this 6 day creation story and some think that it is appropriate for them.

I have a friend for whom the creation story was the deal breaker.

It was a relief to find a believer who wrote a reasonable explanation of the creation story that made more sense than I had ever read in modern evangelical publcations.

Standing by itself, the creation story reveals only the Creator.

The assumption was on the part of the religious that what we do not understand must be the work of a god — except that over the last few centuries we understand more about creation — big bang, evolution, etc. which shows those creation stories to be incorrect.

But this is an intolerable idea — unless we are no longer the children of one Father, unless the creation story is a mere myth, unless the «vertical relationship» (at once unique, personal and universal) no longer exists.

According to Moltmann, the creation story became a way of maintaining their vision, and thus another creative witness to our call and commission in the world.