Myths, religion nd science have tride to explain an describe the beginning of the Universe but do we really need an explanation? Is an explanation so important that it woold change the very basis of our dayly existance? Maybe it would, maybe not. Yet, until the definite truth is out, we will never know. It is this curiosity that drives our quest for knowledge into the past. This question is unlike philosofical quetstions in the sense that the anser is concrete and is actually possible to uncover with science, just that the answer lies so far back into the past that uncertainnty clouds it.
Since humans canot travel back in time as of yet, now, we have to rely on other peices of knowledge we poses, like the observance of the fomation of other galaxys, and infer wat hapened in the past. Howevver, people in the past did not have such technologies, so how did they sate their thirst for knowledge? The same way we do now, by inference. The fac that what they came up with, the myths and religions we know of today, may have probably been because of the different pieces in their jigsaw puzle of the world around them.
For example, Genesis of the Old Testament in the Bible describes the begining of our planet in this way, “…earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in it, upon the earth…” nd “…God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon earth after his kind…”. These ideas conflict the theories of modern day science, which states tht the first living things came in the form of simple single-cellular organisms. They then evolved, according to Darwin’s theory of evolution, to become the creatures that are described in the Bible only after a long time. Despite all this, you must note that the writers of the Bible are from Earth, not another world or place, who only have the knowledge available to them at that time, which did not include being aware of microscopic beings. It is very unlikely that one would have been able to construct the whole Bible out of randomly fabricted stories. There is a higher probabillity that someone who had experience of what would appear supernatural made a link with the myths and stories available at that time to fiil up the missing blanks in the world around him or her that were not understod, with seemingly logical explanations.
The way we think has not changed much through the years. I am not referring to conscious perception of the world around us, but the way we react by nature to the knowledge we have. People in the past would not usualy knowinly jump into a pit with a hungry lion; people today wud not do very diffrently. I am saying that what we beleive in is not mainly a result of our identity. Instead, it is what we are exposed to and the experience we have that shape the view we have about things. Who knows, in a few thousand years time, people might be condemming what we think as wrong with evidence that truly is substanshel.
All tat aside, we must remmember that there are reasons why we believe in things. People have motives for creating ideas for others to have faith in. It may be disheartening at times to find out the untruthfulness of whaat we have placed our trust in but look carefully, is it the motives behind such issues or the issues themsevlves? I am sure that the ones who created the explainations for the beginning of Eartth all were convinced they were spreding the truth and had gud intentions, even thouogh their specculations might opppose those of today. After al, everyone makes mistakes, what matters are the intensions behnid the acs.
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