But first a little disclaimer
My personal belief about the
beginning of the universe is simple. Nobody knows, nor will anyone ever
be certain. I do believe there will be some good theories, and so on, but
never concrete proof, ruling out the invention of time travel or something
like that. But I do believe the Bible is incorrect, and therefore should
never be in public schools, especially in science class.
The Two Accounts of Creation
If there is one thing to be said
about the Bible, its that it doesn't waste time in contradicting itself.
Technically the very first word of the Bible is the beginning of the first
contradiction. The very first thing the Bible covers is creation, and
there are two accounts of creation in Genesis... two different
accounts. The first account starts at Genesis 1:1 and ends
at Genesis 2:3. The second account begins at Genesis
2:4 and ends at Genesis 2:25. Now let's see how
they differ.
The order of creation in the
first account.
1. Heaven and Earth
2. Light (night and day)
3. Sky
4. Plants
5. Sun, moon, and stars
6. Fish and birds
7. Land animals
8. Man and woman at the same time
The order of creation in the
second account
1. Man
2. Plants
3. Birds and land animals
4. Woman
There is a reason to this, as there
is for many of the errors in the Bible. The first account originated in a
time when man wanted to believe that they were God's pride and joy. That
this world was made for mankind. God created everything, and made this
nice little place for him to put his masterpiece... man. The second
account is from a time when men were seeking dominance over women, and
justified it by saying man was God's original creation, and worked with
God in naming things. Then women were made from a left over part of a
man. Women always get dumped on in the Bible.
Errors in the Creation
Aside from the obvious
contradictions, there are just a lot of things in this short section of
the Bible that just doesn't make sense.
In Genesis 1:1 it says
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.", then later on in
Genesis 1:8 it says "And God called the firmament Heaven."
So did he create heaven twice? Are there two heavens? I thought maybe
the first statement was just saying what God did, then it was going to
explain in detail how he created heaven and earth... but in Genesis
1:2 the earth has already been created. So I have to believe that
there was a double creation of heaven.
On the first day, God created
light. No problem there, right? But God didn't create any sources of
light until the forth day. So did he only invent the concept of light on
the first day, but no light was around until the forth day? If he had
light, as well as darkness, and light and day... then why did he have to
make the sun, moon, and stars? No matter how you look at the subject of
light during the creation, it just doesn't add up.
Sunlight brings us to another
problem. We know the sun was created on the forth day... but plants were
created on the third day. We know plants require sunlight to live, so why
did God make these things in this backwards order? Now if we take the
literal time frame, and a day in creation as being a 24 hour period, the
plant thing isn't a real problem... plants can survive 24 hours. But then
the whole creation story loses credibility... who really believes the
universe was created in less than a week? Not even most creationist
believe this one. That is why many people say that a day in the creation
was 1,000 to 7,000 years (depending on who you ask). Name a plant that
can live 7,000 years with perfect conditions... much less with no
sunlight.
Creation Science
This is possibly the biggest
oxymoron of all time. How could you call anything that supported the
story of creation as fact a science? Its amazing that anyone would try to
get this stuff taught in class as a fact, do you believe it? With all of
these errors? Be honest.
