Mike, I have two bibles on my desk: King James version (with the Bible dictionary at the end) and russian version of Bible.

And I read it from time to time, because I like mythology - may be because from early ages I liked fairy tales in which good was always rewarded and evel punished - in reverse to real life. And I read a lot of them too.

My faforite verse is this: "And a god said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, ann over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that cripeth upon the earth. (Gen., 1.26)

So god created man in his OWN image, in the image of god created he him; male and female created he them. (1.27)"

So, obviousely man looks exactly like god according to god's own words.

After that god was so busy with creating flora and rain that he completely forgot that he had already created female, and he created female once again (so now there were 2 females and 1 male): "And the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof (Gen., 2.21)
And the rib, which the lord god taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her into the man. (2.22)"

Now, do you have a physics textbook around your place with the description of fundamentals (origin of natural laws like conservation laws and inverse square law, relativity principles, origin of forces, etc) or any good physics textbook at all - so we can talk on equal footing?

• I think, there were TWO human creation stories - stormcrow - July 12, 2001 - 03:20 UTC