What is the "Genesis" of other religions?

[Gulliamo]

I know of the Christian Genesis story and the beliefs and creationist that it has spawned. My question is how do Mohammedans, Hindus, Buddhist, and other religions claim the world began? Do they even make such a claim? Do they also have a "seven day plan"? Do they have hard-line creationist like Christians or are they primarily evolutionist?

[espritch]

Islamics generally agree with the Genesis creation scenario and there are Islamic creationists. Hindus regard the current world as just another in an endless cycle of worlds that have been created and destroyed. There are fundamentalists Hindus who claim the Vedas are full of advanced science, so you might consider them as a sort of Hindu version of creationists though they don't hold with any seven days scenario. Buddhism grew out of Hinduism so they may view the universe similarly. The difference is that they regard the world with it's endless cycle of rebirth as a kind of illusion people must strive to transcend. I don't think there is a Buddhist equivalent to creationism, but I could be wrong.

[FireGarden]

Islam certainly borrows a lot from the biblical Genesis. But the details aren't all in one chapter, they're spread about all over the Quran. That makes it a little harder to find them!

On creationism/evolution,
That's actually a good example to bring up in any "science in the Quran" debate. It shows how interpreting the text the way you want to is important since, while there are Muslims who believe that evolution is false, there are also some Muslims who reckon the Quran describes evolution (God driven, obviously) and will quote verse like [56:61-62] "Nothing can hinder us from replacing you by others like yourselves or transforming you into beings you know nothing of." (translation by NJ Dawood)

It's not clear to me whether that second group believes in an initial creation followed by evolution, or just simply evolution as the means of creation. (Not that they're all going to agree, of course!)


EDIT: to say I mean the creation of humanity.
Evolution has nothing to do with creation of the universe, obviously.

[StaticEngine]

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/creation_myths.html

I think it's important to know as many as possible, since that enables you to refute with "Well, how do we know the Earth wasn't birthed from the great Sky Vagina? It's been sung about by the HoDoUoDo Tribe for centuries, so it must be true!"

Which is about as reasonable as any claim of biblical accuracy.