Looking at a bright point, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens

of unchanging truth, with the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In the middle of the 19th century, an archaeologist discovered fragments of multiple clay tablets

in what is modern-day Iraq.

Translated, the Cuniform Writing on these and other tablets subsequently found, revealed

the Anuma Elish, the Babylonian account of the creation of the world.

The Anuma Elish starts with the formless chaos and water, the waters divide into a god

and a goddess who have children who are also gods, and then war breaks out.

Between the mother and father, between the mother and children, ultimately, the offspring

of the first two gods create human beings in order for them to be their servants.

Other ancient cultures have strikingly similar creation accounts.

Egyptians believed multiple creation myths, but most of them also began with chaos and

water out of which comes gods war, and ultimately human beings.

There's almost always something there, and there's almost always violence.

The Genesis account, skeptics proclaim, is simply one of these accounts, and therefore

should not be taken any more seriously than the others.

Well today, many Christians, even those who may not go as far as to call the Genesis account

false, seem embarrassed by it.

A purely naturalistic and neo-Darwinian account of human origins now dominates both the

Academy and the wider culture.

Most Christians simply lack the confidence to engage these issues at all.

So instead, they merely accept claims, like the one that Genesis should be filed away under

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