"He struck her with a fish" --- Creation Myths On SkepticWiki

[Dr Adequate]

Creation myths (http://www.skepticwiki.org/wiki/index.php/Creation_myths)

Featuring Acoma, Algonquin, Babylonian, Californian, Cherokee, Greek, Hawaiian, Japanese, Jewish, Maori, Mayan, Navaho, Norse, Samoan, Siberian, Uitoto, Yoruba, Zulu and Zuñi creation myths. You'll enjoy the whacky one with the talking snake.

The perfect gift for that special person in your life who thinks that science teachers should teach "both" theories.

[JLam]

Thanks Dr. A. This is just the kind of thing I've been looking for.

I sometimes think you deserve a medal, so I hereby present you with the JLam Medal for Cool Stuff and Stuff.
http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/docs-pix/medal-honor.jpg

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Yes, both theories: the Greek and the not-Greek.

~~ Paul

[rharbers]

Thanks Dr. A. This is just the kind of thing I've been looking for.

I sometimes think you deserve a medal, so I hereby present you with the JLam Medal for Cool Stuff and Stuff.
http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/docs-pix/medal-honor.jpg

That's a Medal of Honor.

[H'ethetheth]

That's a Medal of Honor.
A common misperception.

[BillC]

No Flying Spaghetti Monster, nor IPU?

But seriously, good stuff.

[JLam]

That's a Medal of Honor.
You don't say. I thought it was the JLam Medal for Cool Stuff and Stuff. How did I mess that up? :rolleyes:

[dogjones]

I like the Zulu one - "Erm... Idunno!"

[Dr Adequate]

And the Cherokee:

"When the animals and plants were first made -- we do not know by whom..."

At last, a creation myth for agnostics!

[EatatJoes]

I was reading the various myths and I couldn't help but wonder how a large group of people that read their creation myth as literal fact would defend the literal interpretation.

"So he questioned all the beasts, changing their size or allotting their lives according to their answers.”

Algonqion Fundamentalist - "See!! That's why everything seems so perfectly suited for everything else! God asked the animals how they would behave."

[Dr Adequate]

I was reading the various myths and I couldn't help but wonder how a large group of people that read their creation myth as literal fact would defend the literal interpretation.

"So he questioned all the beasts, changing their size or allotting their lives according to their answers.”

Algonqion Fundamentalist - "See!! That's why everything seems so perfectly suited for everything else! God asked the animals how they would behave."There's a simpler way to be an Algonquin fundamentalist:

(1) I don't know how such-and-such a thing evolved.
(2) Therefore, everything was made by Glooskap.