Quote Originally Posted by forwonderbear
well, other than leviathin i don't think they're mentioned in the bible. there is the "gap" theory that there is an amount of time between genesis 1:1 and 1:2. the hebrew has some interesting clues here. i'm not sure if i believe it or not. there is also the theory that the "days" of creation are not literal 24hour days. i used to believe strongly that they were 24hour days, but now i'm not so sure. god created the sun and moon on the 4th so it seems a bit strange to me if the previous three days were 24hours. not sure where i stand on that
I think that Genesis is just a creation myth of an ancient agricultural people who had no idea why the world was the way it was, and invented a story in order to have some kind of explanation. I think the funniest part about the whole myth is that God spends all this time carefully designing the earth and the things on the earth and the inhabitants of the earth, and then the sun and moon so the earthlings can have night and day, and then, as an afterthought, finishes by spontaneously constructing the trillions and trillions of galaxies, gas clouds, black holes, supernovas, quasars, dark matter, etc. that make up 99.999999999999999999999999999999% of the matter and energy in the universe...just so the earthlings could tell the time and season.

Who can blame them for thinking the universe was created for them? It certainly looked that way, from a pre-scientific mindset.