The most famous of all the mythological creation begins with the sentence in the Old Testament, Genesis 1:01: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Now we may have invented the concept of creation in order to give our gods actually do something. Sadly, for instance in the case of Genesis that God and Peters after only six days! Now what? Anyway, back to Genesis 1:1.
Now I do not know who actually wrote Genesis 1:1, it certainly was not a supernatural omnipotent, omniscient, deity. Who, however, was obsessed with the knowledge that it would not be expected to think that they are knowable or even suspected way back then. Now that someone who wrote Genesis 1:1 was entitled to know such things, that the sky (the sky and beyond) and the earth were created, however, knew these things. Now that suggests that someone else who knows these things, informed by Genesis 1:1. If you believe in time travel, we may be in the 21 century (or later) that are better known, traveled back in time and told him (or her), although this is unlikely in the extreme. That someone is probably not terrestrial.
Now every cultural mythology has a story or create stories, and that should not be the case based on firsthand observation of the human. If the proposed "First" scenario should be based on your personal observations and understanding of the natural world as you see it, or the historical record. So, something a little funny here because it is likely the same people who should not doubt any such thing as to create a really wrote all those making mythology! And these creations are all unique one-off creations. God only gave birth 'to Adam and Eve (or humanity) once. Thus, it is unique (once) the creation mythology, such as Genesis 1:1, which are confusing, not to say the creation, as they say the birth of your cat. The birth, dawn, etc. may create varieties, but this is not unique. This is not a single Big Bang "In the beginning," the beginning.
Can you, in day-to-day observations of the sky and earth (or universe and all life), we assume nothing more than heaven and earth that has always existed? Heaven is what exists above our heads, a country that exists beneath our feet. Since there is no man who ever lived, which can not be attributed to the knowledge of above and below ground, could not confirm any animal or plant species popping into existence in time and space, you need to make? Maybe Genesis 01:01 should read "From the beginning of an infinite God only enjoyed overseeing the eternal heavens and the earth and directs the events that followed them." To our historical ancestors, who were expected to have made more sense.
It is often easier, as in the above quotation was invented, to accept something that has always been and always will be, but to try to explain how he came to be in the first place, especially if it is not all that obvious that it (whatever "again interested in) is always necessary to get to be first.
Whatever you are interested come in standard forms. There are a variety of creations in mythology are quite universal.
The creation of the universe is a case in point, the stationary point of light in the night sky - the stars. Now the fact that the patterns in the night sky do not change from your birth until death, and are not altered in comparison to historical records, suggest something unchanging, and therefore no need to start or creation.
Creation of the heavens includes those moving point of light in the night sky - the sun, moon and planets. The problem here is that they are constantly repeated, and move around in circles. In fact, if you think that is a circle or an ellipse, which is its starting point?
Creation of the Earth is a universal myth, but as a universal fact that there is no one watching or record anywhere, anytime, that Terra Firma does not exist.
Create and separation from the earth, the sea and the sky is still a near universal story, but has the same complaint - all the personal observations and historical records note, and sign all three, so why not assume separate land / sea / sky interface has always been?
Making your area or nation is another case in point. The Japanese have a mythology that accounts for the creation of Japan, but there are no people around when Japan was 'created' by various natural geological forces.
The creation of life is the second part of the Genesis creation story, but it is hardly unique in the Old Testament. May you have a number of pets, cats say. Individual cats were born and then die, but the concept of a common cat going back and forth and back, but the earliest human records. So, why is there a need for God (or any other deity or a natural process for that matter) to create a cat? Do cats always there?
The creation of man from God (or in other cultures the gods) is puzzling since it was never a time when the historical record, it was reported that a human being (who could confirm a real historical figure) was aware that the first man and therefore human beings are created.
The need for mythology is not all that difficult to explain, but the creation mythology is difficult to explain because a witness statement indicates that as things stand as they always were. At the heart of this mystery is the concept of infinity. You have a personal beginning and ending, but I really can not imagine at the beginning or end. This is because the nagging question that always pops up, "and that was before the" and "what will happen after that" - cause and effect, infinite, cause and effect. It is not difficult to keep extrapolating back and forth and back in time without running out of 'back'. It is not difficult to keep extrapolating forward and back and forth in time without running out of 'forward'.
Infinity: Your personal observations require things to be in progress in a linear sense (no beginning, no end) or cyclic (round and round she goes, where it stops, nobody knows) - there is no alpha, no first cause, and not omega, no last effect - but it is still in progress in all matters of causation.
Combinations of two types of infinity, the birth - death, the most fundamental of all measurements, and this is repeated and repeated and repeated. Each individual birth - death is linear and uniform, but on a larger scale birth leads to death, but before that there is another death and birth wheels just go around and around - different players, same scenario. So what is the need to propose a first birth, the first record?
LINEAR INFINITY: infinity from the last, eventually formed his great, great grandparents, great grandparents, grandparents, parents, children, children's children, childrens, childrens children to future infinity. There is no beginning, so there is no room. Or, in the introductory words of the show "Ben Casey", "Man, Woman, Birth: Death: Infinity".
Cyclical INFINITY: Seasons are cyclical, Sunrise / sunset the same phases of the moon is also cyclical, going around the planet. No circuit has a beginning, therefore, not making you apply.
Among other large terrestrial cycles, not all apparent within a human lifetime, or sometimes not obvious without scientific analysis, we are rock cycle (compression - erosion), water cycle (evaporation - precipitation), the carbon cycle (carbon dioxide - carbon + oxygen), nitrogen cycle, and the other as well.
INFINITY Causality: Cause and effect, every day in any way to observe the cause and effect. The cause, however, the effect of previous causes. The effect in turn causes something else to happen. Thus, the word 'cause' and 'effect' are synonymous. Again, can not be the first cause, nor the final effect.
If each record can be consulted, the memories of his own memory of your elders elders Elder's all written and pictorial records, and you note, without exception, in that all the record that lions roam the plains of Africa, then you must assume that Africa is still there and that's always wandering lions and did so on the plains of Africa. You do not have evidence to the contrary. What logical reason for assuming that you have not always been so? So, what is needed to create a mythology that creates the lava, creating their roaming around capabilities, and creates plains of Africa and for them to wander in? No pressure or an obvious need to speculate that "initially" deity created the Africa, the African plains to the deity of the lions to roam in.
The solution is that while you can not get to create compelling stories, modern science can be. Modern cosmology is now talking about "In the beginning of 'Big Bang event. Darwin and the paleontologists tell us that once upon a time there were no lions and geologists claim that there was no way of uniquely African continent, and climatologists note that there were no plains in Africa. Woe , creating a mythology of modern science dates back thousands of years, so we're back to square one. answer lies elsewhere, but again with those who are still more knowledgeable than us. They no longer know, all those thousands of years were 'gods' or advanced IMHO (Modern scholars, and then some) alien. ET talks about "the beginning" boldly went where our modern Earth scientists have only now just treading.
Now these 'gods' is often credited for some of these creations have had a rogue-all to do with (as God in the Old Testament as told in the Book of Genesis). In many cases, the creation stories are muddied because the old people, who at the end of the scribes who wrote down these stories as told ET, would not, for example, understand the Big Bang cosmology, but could not cope with the golden cosmic egg that hatched. Modern genetics is so much mumbo-jumbo, but it creates a woman from the rib of the male, while mysterious, in their understanding of the ballpark. Modern geology and plate tectonics would be double Dutch to ancient Japan, but this is a perfect sense of the original pair of their gods to stir the ocean with a spear and salt crystallizes on top of that he became the first of many Japanese islands, all created their gods.
In short: Can you, all by yourself, based on your life-long observation, I came up with the demand that the sun and the moon need a creator? Or that the stars in the sky were actually infinite eternal, but must be the creator? Or, those members of our own species, human beings are not always around, and always will be about? There is nothing to observe, or to any of your ancestors observed, which might in any way lead you to postulate, to recognize and accept all the ultimate "at the beginning (s)". If so, then my ancient astronauts ET This scenario is a viable alternative to the thesis.
