2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Senator James Inhofe: Bible Refutes Climate Change [View all]Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)That is mythology from the Bronze Age. You might as well look to the Epic of Gilgamesh for guidance.
The Earth has been here for several billion years. Modern humans are primates and are not a special class of lifeforms in the vast universe of billions of galaxies except that they are currently smarter than most other lifeforms on this planet and also more able to manipulate and dominate the environment.
If you think God "gave" the Earth to humans, well, I guess that your deity "gave" the Earth to dinosaurs for exponentially longer than it gave it to the bald apes. Dinosaurs dominated the planet for hundreds of millions of years; we've only been here in this form for tens of thousands of years. The Bible is a storybook written a blip of time ago.