Quote Originally Posted by Blisterize
As a Christian monotheist, I start with two unproven axioms:

1. There is a God.

2. It's not me (and it's also not you).
how do you know im not god, not too many people believed jesus was god when he lived.......... just kidding i dont believe in god therefore i dont believe im god therefore i dont believe i exist

now ill be serious

Quote Originally Posted by Blisterize
It is in a sense The Book, the source and origin of all the narratives of the world. The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and their temptation by the serpent, is one of the shaping myths of the human imagination. The account of the creation of the world may have been called into question by the self-appointed prophets of more recent centuries, but who does not secretly still retain it as a possible and pertinent model of the universe? The myth is perpetual because it corresponds very deeply to some need or belief of humankind.
ok ill grant the bible and in it the creation account does seem to have a mass appeal to people, but the people it appeals to are those who already profess adhearance to christianity. There is equal amounts of people who are hindus and believe in the hindu creation account and think of it as a 'pertinent model of the universe'. There are also many other creation accounts from varying world religions. I think human-beings are by nature inquisitive and curious about the world around them, and when they cant understand something they tend to make things up, thats what i think the ancients who wrote the biblical creation account as well as other religious creation accounts did. The reason it is still believed today even though its stacked up against science is the fact people find its comforting to think humans where created speacilly that were not just a freak of nature and that theres a god looking out for them.