Biblical Story: Fact or Fiction
Although many Christian people believe the story of creation as told in Genesis is the truth, science has come up with an alternative theory on how man came into existence. The word creation comes from the Greek word for science that is philosophically defined as “the production of an existing thing out of no preexisting material and by no emanation from the preexisting self.”(Encarta “Creation”) In its most simplistic interpretation, Greek science means that creation is the making of something out of nothing. This idea is expressed numerous times in stories in an attempt to make sense of how the world was created and how we got here. The story of Genesis is one such story.In Genesis everything is related, from the story of creation to the history of the time before, during, and after Christ to God. In medireview times, the Church of Christ accepted the story of Genesis as the “complete story of creation,” (Encarta “Creation”) and up until the nineteenth century when the “scientific” theories were advanced it was the acceptance of most Jews and Christians. The theory of “creation science” began to develop in the nineteenth century (The Creation Story) The problem that is most of
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