The next time someone tells you they believe in the "biblical version of creation," ask them which one. There are two stories of creation in the Book of Genesis, and they do not agree. The first ...

Coupled with the language of "In the beginning," humankind's creation is an undeniably radical innovation in what we might term the genre of creation myths. As Bill Arnold points out in his commentary ...

He also explores the ancient creation narrative that he claims is most directly in competition with Genesis, the Babylonian Enuma Elish. Measuring these two alternative creation stories against one ...

The rationale of the brief biblical creation narrative we read in Genesis may be to teach us that its goal reached -- on its seventh day, which satisfied ...

The first and second chapters of Genesis (the first book of the Bible) do indeed seem to include two very different accounts of the creation.

In last week’s entry (Genesis 1: Creating Order with Boundaries), I discussed how boundaries are essential to creating a functional society, as gleaned from the Creation narrative in the opening ...

Art What do Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists talk about when they talk about ‘Genesis’? A groundbreaking exhibit tells the story of creation through multiple perspectives, with eye-opening ...

Conversely, must the literal nature of the Genesis creation story be discounted in order to reconcile religion with evolution, astronomy, physics, and other sciences?