In The Beginning...

     I have been scanning through some of the ancient Near Eastern creation accounts as part of my Old Testament survey.  While there are some interesting similarities there are definitely three major differences between the biblical creation account and all other creation stories that I have seen thus far.


1: The creation narrative in the bible is the only one that is monotheistic.  

2: Without exception, in all of the other creation stories the gods created out of existing materials as opposed to the biblical version which claims that God spoke things into existence and created out of nothing.  For instance in one called “The Enuma Elish” a smaller deity named Marduk kills the monstrous goddess Tiamat and uses her now divided corpse as the raw materials to create the heavens and the earth. 


3:  The third difference would be the purpose of creation.  God’s intent for His creation was tender and loving. The God of the bible personally cared for provided for His creation as they delighted in Him and enjoyed close fellowship with Him. (until the fall of course) However in the other creation accounts people were created  to be essentially slave labor for the gods.  As “The Enuma Elish” put’s it:  “I will establish a savage, ‘man’ shall be his name… he shall be charged with the service of the gods that they might be at ease.”


It would seem the reason for gods creating mankind in many of these stories is for no other reason then the fact that the gods were lazy and wanted to get out of work.  

How to Make an Atheist's Head Explode!

If you're like me you have probably spent many sleepless nights wondering just how it is that you could make an atheist's head explode.  Okay, maybe you're not like me, but this is still a really good and a really funny video.

What Would Darwin Do?

I wonder how Darwin would respond to this?

Something Happened...

Mike Felker posted this video on his blog, and as I watched it I was convinced that the video was a parody of a big bang scientist. Sadly I was mistaken.

Here's my one sentence synopses of the video:

People don't understand the big bang, here's what really happened... or maybe not....maybe this happened... or maybe this happened.... well, all we really know is that there was nothing and something happened.

Imagine a prosecuting attorney addressing a jury in the same manner at the end of a murder trial:

Ladies and gentleman of the jury maybe the defendant murdered the victim. Or maybe someone else did. Maybe there's not even a victim at all, All we really know for sure is that at some point something happened. I know that's all very confusing to you but trust me, I'm a.. a... what's the word for a "law talking guy?"

A Step Beyond "Fine Tuning"

Looking to take your argument for the existence of God one step beyond "Fine Tuning?"