Top 10 All-Time Creationist Myths

[Mark E. Smith]

Throughout the ethos mankind has developed many cosmic explanations for the existence of our exalted species. Live Science has put the very best of these into an easy to explore Top 10 format for your spiritual and moral edification.

(Did you know that the mighty God Bor and his wife were licked into exitence by a giant cow named Auohumla?)

http://www.livescience.com/history/top10_intelligent_designs-10.html

Off topic: Is it OK to refer to the Senator from Ohio as Unintelligent DeWine?

[ComerPerro]

1. Really interesting link. Thanks for posting

But, where is the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

[Mark E. Smith]

2. He's become the greeter at the Macaroni Grill

It's a sad story, actually.

[bloom]

3. I have these really old encyclopedias, 1910 or something

And I was noticing how they covered Evolution. It was more like the theory of evolution had evolved for 4000+ years than as if it were hatched by Darwin.

It seems there have always been those who relied more on fantasy and those who relied more on scientific observation.

It still amazes me how many people in the scientific, technological environment that we live in - still like to go with the myths.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Also available online

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (11th Edition). Part of the article is based on an earlier edition written by T.H. Huxley - second only to getting Darwin to write it.

Evolution at the Beginning of the 20th century.—

Since Huxley and Sully wrote their masterly essays in the 9th edition of this encyclopaedia, the doctrine of evolution has outgrown the trammels of controversy and has been accepted as a fundamental principle. Writers on biological subjects no longer have to waste space in weighing evolution against this or that philosophical theory or religious tradition; philosophical writers have frankly accepted it, and the supporters of religious tradition have made broad their phylacteries to write on them the new words.

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/EUD_FAT/EVOLUTION.html

[bloom]

5. That is nice to know that it's online.

That is pretty much what I was referring to.

[paineinthearse]

6. If creationist theory is taught in your school system,

...demand ALL theories are taught, and given equal time.

Nominated.

[bloom]

7. I like this one: China, the Middle Kingdom

(except the part about the "commoners")


Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pan-gu separates the Earth from the Sky.

A cosmic egg floated within the timeless void, containing the opposing forces of yin and yang. After eons of incubation, the first being, Pan-gu emerged. The heavy parts (yin) of the egg drifted downwards, forming the earth. The lighter parts (yang) rose to form the sky. Pan-gu, fearing the parts might re-form, stood upon the earth and held up the sky. He grew 10 feet per day for 18,000 years, until the sky was 30,000 miles high.

His work completed, he died. His parts transformed into elements of the universe, whether animals, weather phenomena, or celestial bodies. Some say the fleas on him became humans, but there is another explanation. The goddess Nuwa was lonely, so she fashioned men out of mud from the Yellow River. These first humans delighted her, but took long to make, so she flung muddy droplets over the earth, each one becoming a new person. These hastily-made people became the commoners, with the earlier ones being the nobles the first example of mass-production!