Which Creation Myth?

Allow me to categorize your questions in mainly three categories, otherwise it will be too long to answer all of your questions. Firstly, those who believe in single GOD, the Almighty, who doesn't belong to some culture, religion or place. secondly who believe in a god but who is spacial or based on some culture. third are those who don't believe at all in any god and consider it a myth in the sence of a lie or fable. In first category comes the Jews, christians and muslims together. They believe in one single GOD and have the same story about the creation. ADAM and EVE, their coming to earth and spread of population through them. i must say that all these religions have the same basics about creation. neither do they argue on who is the creator, nor do they differ on how, basically, HE created. only differences come in "the details" of how HE did it. Second category contain those whose creator was spacial like egyptians or cultural/mythycal like greece's Zues. but there is a difference here. egyptian creator was a human who seized power and was considered the most powerful of creatures, hence the god while greec's was a supernatural god, unseeable and not human. Third are those who don't believe at all that there have been any creator or GOD for that matter. for them it's really a myth in the sence of fable. these are atheists as well agnostics. agnostics further have two sub types. ones who think there might be a GOD, but don't know for sure hence can't prove it, hence becoming a sort of "theistic agnostics", the other who think that their might not be a god but don't know for sure and can't prove his non existance, hence becoming a sort of atheistic agnostics. Now who's story or version is more true than other is totally a subjective issue. i belong to the first category, not just because it is written in scripture but by years of thinking and pondering, i have come to this conclusion that the divine words are far credible than human stories. i myslef was a theist in childhood, an agnostic in my teenage and again a theist when i started my engineering, but this time i was into it by thought and observation. i have related my story in one other thread and don't want to repeat. i would just say that as an engineer and researcher i now can't believe that some research or design can be made without a researcher and a designer. so how can we, who are much more complex and intricate than human made things, can come into existance without a creator? why i believe that first category version or so called myth is more credible? really needs article at length. we can have detailed discussion on it, if you wish so. still i would like to say that, every prophet who came, braught with him the same message of one GOD besides having a difference of about hundreds of centuries in time and thousands of miles in space. their message was same. which is itself a prrof that their version has been very consistant with time and space. i would not like to make a wedge here between different theist religions because their basics are all same. Sorry for being long, i still have much to say but i fear nobody is gonna read it. thanks for your patience.

I was reading a book that points out that the Bible actually has 2 versions of the creation myth. One is an almost straight take off from the Persian myth & the other an adaption of the Persian myth with Egyptian twists. There is good reason to believe that there is a relationship between the Egyptian "Sun God" religion created by Tut's father & the Jewish one, or singular God. I am NOT saying that the Jews had more than one god before they left Egypt with Moses, but that possibly the 2 got mixed up together. There is good reasons to believe that Ramses II (the Great) was actually not the pharoh that the Jews left Egypt during, but if he had been, then the 2 faiths could've gotten mixed up because he was very shortly after that time. Tut only lasted about 10 yrs, Ay much less, then another short term pharoh before Ramses. Certainly less than 50 years.

Last year I took a World Mythology class, which I found very interesting. I spent a lot of time pondering this issue. I was raised Christian, taught that the Biblical creation story was the only accurate account, and everyone else in the world was wrong. But then I got older and realized, every religion thinks their story is the right one- so how can I say for sure that Biblical creationism is "right" and the others are not? Here's the way I see it now. At some point, the world began (or was created). None of us were there when it happened, so we can't say for sure how it all went. But, as a species, human beings have an innate need to explain things. Some choose to take the word of an "inspired" prophet or religious leader. Some create a story based on their cultural traditions and values. Either way, a culture's creation story says a lot about what's important in that culture. I don't think it's important to try to determine which one is right. I think creation mythologies would be put to much better use in analyzing them to learn more about the values and beliefs of the cultures who wrote them. Because in the long run, all debates about who's "right" are futile.

In nordic rtadition ,odin was created from the abyss and proceeded to create the world ,mankind ,etc ,and so on ,and so forth so ,what sould make the bible more or less