I think it’s important for us to learn about different creation myths, and learning about them poses questions about our own beliefs regarding earth’s creation. We all have our own idea of how the earth was created- some believe that God created everything on earth, some myths suggest that different gods and symbolic figures arose from the dark abyss that we call earth and created everything on earth in their way. And we can’t forget the belief in the scientific approach and believe that earth was created after the Big Bang and earth became what it is today through the process of intense and ongoing evolution. It seems that many people stand their ground; what they believe happened that created earth as we know it today, that’s exactly what happened and there’s absolutely no dispute about it. I can completely understand why people are this way because I was the same way until I started college and I studied intensely about evolution and how legit that evolution really is. I’ve even had the opportunity to examine my own beliefs under an academic microscope to, in a way, compare the validity of my own beliefs to science. As horrible as it sounds, it actually taught me a lot about what I believe in and why I do believe in it.
I think sometimes studying and learning about other creation myths, in a way, gives us a gut check. When I was watching the different creation myths that others believe in, it made me think about my own creation myth that I draw myself to. And I personally think that it’s really interesting to learn about all these different myths and how one event that could be interpreted in so many different ways. I felt really narrow minded when I realized how many different versions of the same event there are and how I just didn’t get myself out there to explore them. It also surprised me how a lot of these creation myths have the same basic “plot” to them. Each one I saw seemed to have some kind of traumatic event that cause some kind of creation of something on earth, and it’s interesting how my own creation belief seems to have the same theme throughout as well. I’ve always been one to believe in the traditional Genesis creation story of how the earth and heavens were created, and I noticed that there are trends that are embedded in the other myths I saw and my own. I think that the experience is very rewarding if we could just be a little more open-minded. Even if someone stands by their beliefs to the very end, I’ve found that in carefully looking at my own beliefs compared to others and that of science, it has made my beliefs and faith in what I believe in that much stronger and I now appreciate my beliefs and have the respect for others that I know I can have in better understanding them. I’m not too sure if I hit the nail on the head with this blog since I kind of jumped around a bit, but through this exploration through learning about different creation myths, the learning experience in itself is incredibly rewarding.
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I really enjoyed you perspective on the different creation myths and the scientific approach to explaining how life began. I think for the most part, cultures have always needed some way to explain all of the bad things that go on in this world, for such a strong species we are surprisingly fragile and I think people have always felt the need to believe that this world is not “it”, we want to believe that life goes on after this one because when we lose people we love it is too hard to think that you will never see them again. I think this is partly proven by the fact that you mentioned, about how most of the creation myths involve destruction and new life from that destruction. I agree that reading about such myths can make your belief in your own personal religion stronger and it can also give you a new found respect for other cultures and their beliefs. On their own I find creation myths really interesting on one hand because they show how creative and inventive early man was but I also think they show how some things do not change, and wanting to find reason in destruction and hardship is normal and unchanging.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you are open minded to many of this different creation of the world. I agree with you, that there are so many different perspective, but it depends on our own personal believe to achieve on whatever we believe usually happens in the world. I am kind of like you that I try to connect some of this myth creations to that of my own thought. However, although I struggle to try to connect them together, I can someone disintegrate the idea that a myth is just a story. I am not a great believer when it comes to myths or great distraction Gods. I am actually living in this world with the concern to my question about how Earth was ever created. Unfortunately I have not found the perfect myth that can stop the questioning, but I have set some Ideas down to admit that some things could have happened the way we believe that they did. Through it all I believe that everyone gets to promote there own myths of how the world was created and eventually a little one will have the same question that we have, and hopefully that by then, we can all give a discreet answer to shut the arrow down and set our myth straight.
ReplyDeletewell your blog was very intersting to read this week. i really liked the topics that were given to write about this week. i really like how you explored your ownways of thinkingabout how this world was created and how and why men and women were put onthis earth. i really like how you talked about how you have changed your thinking about it since you got into college and how stubborn most everyone is about how this world is created. i think that people should take a step back and open their eyes and try and see the world n another point of view and see how other people around the world llok at how it was created. well i really liked reading your blog and though your brought alot fo good insighton to the topic.
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