How is the modern creation story different from the ancient ones? Choose one of the ancient creation myths to contrast to the modern one in these three ways: 1.What is the purpose of each? 2. What kind of questions does it answer? 3. What kind of questions are not answered?
The modern creation story (by which I'm assuming you mean the "Big Bang" Theory) is very different from the ancient ones mainly in its absence of a creator. All the creation stories agree that in the beginning, or time zero, there was nothing. Not even nothing existed. It would appear that's where the similarities end. The modern creation story involves a sudden burst into existence, billions of years of development and an existence governed by natural forces as opposed to divine spirits. As different as it is, it also maintains the mythological themes. The Hopi creation story involves evolution of sorts, and all of the ancient creation myths start with the divisions of the heavens and earth. The modern story agrees with that. The Hopi myth attributes the creation of humans to a loving divine couple and the modern story does not. But other than the absence of a creator they are shockingly similar. The purpose of each story is to explain where humans and all that exists around us come from. They answer the questions of what am I? Where did I come from? Who put me here? Is there something better than this? While their answers may be different (The Hopi myth details a purposeful and loving creation coming from divine, and thus obviously better, beings) they share the common theme of purpose. The Hopi myth answers these questions and explains the purpose of our existence. The modern creation story does not explain a purpose for humans. It lacks a fundamental aspect of hope that the ancient creation myths share.
ReplyDeleteIn the modern creation story the Univers in a large a explosion it also to billion years for signs of life to come show up on Earth. In the Greek creation story and the Big Bang story tells us how the universes made it makes us stop wondering on that and onto something else. The Greek creation story answers how the world was made and how the gods came to be while the Big Bang theory tells us how the Earth was made and how the Universe came to be. It also tell the story of evelution side of it. The Greek story doesn't tell us the way Humans came to be and were animials came to be. While in the Big Bang theory doesn't tell us if there is an after life.
ReplyDeleteIn the modern creation story they tell us how the universe was created though an explosion we call the Big Bang. In Creation stories they tell us ways the world was created by division and one special being. Both the modern creation and creation stories tell us how the world become the way it was. In the modern creation story though only tell us how the universe came to be while creation stories tell us about how everything on earth became to be. The Hopi story tells us about the creation of people, animals, and land. In the modern creation story it tells us about how the universe came to be like the moon, earth, and the planets as well as the sun. The Hopi story doesn’t tell us how come our creator is a spider and doesn’t explain why we are here on earth. The modern creation story does not explain why we can do things that other animals can’t and why we need things like warmth and embrace.
ReplyDeleteThe modern creation story differs greatly from the acient ones.Ancient myths try to describe what they didn't know with what they did know. Like the greek myth for example,said that out of void came earth and that earth gave birth to all of these gods and creatures. The modern myth describes the big bang as a light and cosmic energy with many different scientfic hypothesis, however the greeks did not yet know of these scfientic theories so they had to use what knowledge they had back then to create a story of the Earth's beginning.The 2 stories however are both trying to explain how we got here, where all of these landmarks came from, and what exactly happened! And for the most part, both of them answered these(but the modern didn't really answer where the landmarks came from).In fact, both stories suggest that we are all in some way connected whether that be through the gods or a cosmic energy. Although both stories fail to answer some of our major questions. The modern myth fails to anwser who the creator in that story is. Yes, it explains it was a cosmic energy but wouldn't someone have had to create that energy? And for the Greeks, where exactly did Earth come from? Was there someone higher up and more mighty that said i want to create a planet in which many gods will live on? Both stories are clearly unique and intriguing and we have alot to learn from what these stories say was the birth of life.
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ReplyDeleteThe big bang is a very different type of creation story from the ancient ones we have read. The first difference I noticed was in the ancient stories there is some sort of god or creator, as we like to think that we are creators and we explain the creator of the world as a very human like, although divine, figure. Appose to the big bang where there was no divine or human like involvement. Another way that these stories differ is that humans come from animals according to the big bang story however in the Indian myth there is first two humans who divide and then make the animals. The third difference I noticed is that in the Indian creation story they explain it using human behavior and characteristics, the woman tried to hide from the man and he came after her and created all the animals, where as in the big bang story it uses scientific reasoning appose to human behavior and actions. Despite all these differenced the purpose remains the same, these stories are used to try to explain the creation of something so grand and mysterious as the earth and where we came from. The question of ‘what is my purpose on earth’ is not answered by the modern creation story however the Indian creation story explains the purpose of humans on this earth and how we are all creators and gods. This is one of the questions that the big bang story leaves unanswered.
ReplyDeleteModern creation stories are so different from ancient stories because in the modern theories such as the big bang the universe was created not by some comic force willing it so but from a sudden explosion of dust and particles. Modern creation may have the same aspect as ancient that suddenly something was there, but unlike ancient stories development and life took billion of years and went through natural selection as opposed to being created by a higher power the way they were.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of the modern stories unlike the ancient stories is to put a solid science to how things were created and evolved through mutation and natural selections. In the Indian myth with Atman though it explains how things came to be with the logical process of a man and a woman creating everything from the smallest ant to the elephants, but it also sends another message of hope saying that there is one person for every one in this world (another half).
The modern creation stories merely answer how we came to be and why we may or may not still be here while the ancient ones answer the questions not only to our existence but who we are, were we will go, and they even may answer our purpose for even being here.
Modern creation stories may lack the hope ancients stories have but they provided something more believable and solid then the ancient myths do.
The modern creation story is different from the ancient creation stories because in the big bang theory the earth was creted from an explosion. In an ancient creation story like the Greek creation story there is a God that creates everything. In all ancient creation stories there is always some God or creator that is the beginning of everything. The purpose of the modern creation story is to logically explain how everything was created. The purpose of ancient creation stories are to not only explain what they didn't know with what they knew but to also include some kind of meaning or message. They both answer how everything started and was created. Questions that are not ansered are like what specifically happened and how the sole thing was created that created everything. In ancient creation stories its more of a metophoric explanation rather than logical.
ReplyDeleteThe big bang theory suggests that out of nothing came everything. All of the other three creation myths that we have read point to a more gradual creation of the earth, and its inhabitants. For example, the Hopi creation story suggests that the animals and beings had to be brought to life through a series of incantations and songs. The big bang theory simply implies that all things came into being the same way that they exist today. Passages from the Greek and Indian stories suggest that the earth slowly evolved from the actions and creations of the gods, and that every part of creation took some kind of codependency from different beings. Our modern theory couldn’t have possibly taken any of this time or the steps needed to create the world, as our world was apparently the product of an explosion. We may never know the truth as to how our world and its residents came to be, but myths like these will always keep us thinking of what our ancestry really was.
ReplyDeleteThe modern creation story differs from the Hebrew creation story greatly. For one, the modern creation story doesn't believe that ANYTHING existed before The Big Bang. The Hebrew story depicted god as always being there, immaculately and endlessly. God supposedly produced light from the darkness, and then earth and water and land, etc.. In the modern creation story, the universe was created instantly; however, the earth itself took millions and millions of years to form, and even longer to produce sentient life. Regardless of the differences, each story is meant to explain what we cannot know for sure. No amount of faith and no amount of science can prove without a doubt just HOW we came to be. Each myth, or story, tells how the world came to exist, and how each aspect of our lives came to be. The only question that neither really adresses is WHY we are here. I don't expect we'll ever know.
ReplyDeleteThe theories of creation differ quite starkly from one another in the ways of how things actually came to be. On one hand you have a large "bang" so massive it's incomprehensible, that every speck of matter that makes up the entirety of the universe burst forth out of and then began bonding to each other to create the world as we know it over the course of millennia; then on the other hand you have a higher power willing things to be and thus they are.
ReplyDeleteEach route is trying to answer how we, and everything around us, got here. The only thing it doesn't answer is what purpose we have here. People on either sides will tell you what your life's purpose is as they have interpreted it but it's never definitely answered by the theories.
The modern day story is different from the creation stories like the Hopi one because it states that "Spider women" and "Tawa" were the creators of everything and that they were the ones who created everything. I believe that the purpose of wach story is to help make at least some concept of how the Earth really came to be. Does it answer some questions? Maybe some but I dont think that it answers them all like how did the Earth really come to be? So can both stories help us understand and relate enough to make some sense?
ReplyDeleteThe modern day story is different from the original creation stories because instead of looking for explanations of natural phenomenons with mythical stories scientists are now able to reason through the evidence they have. There are also less dependance and presence of God. An example is shown in the Greek mythology with Gaia who created everything answering such questions as where did we come from? Why are there animals? and other questions of that sort. The questions it did not answer were why was there greed and evil so early on? And also what were we left here to do other than worship the Gods or Goddesses of our beliefs?
ReplyDeleteThe modern creation myth differ from old creation myths in that it is meant to be read literally, and has no metaphorical significance. The "Big Bang" Theory has no creator or any divine figures or deities, with one of the only similarities being the creation of everything, from nothing. The Big Bang theory stretches creation of our known earth and human existence to billions upon billions of years, unlike old myths which tend to be contained within a few days. Older myths were based on their knowledge and understanding a few millennia ago, in contrast to the Big Bang theory which is based on knowledge and facts of today. Although both modern and traditional myths have uncertainties and problems, the Big Bang is one of the most accepted theory's today. The modern creation story explains the existence of Earth and life, while older myths explain the creation of humans, animals, phenomena (such as rain, lightening, floods, etc.) and create stories to explain these.
ReplyDeleteThe old myths and the moder myths are different because the moder myths are written to be taken literally. They tell things scientifically and say how they were actually created instead of saying what god created what and how. The Big Bang theory is created like this. on actually fact and not what just people think is how it is created. Old myths explain how things were
ReplyDeletecreated like rain, snow, hurricanes and more. moder myths tell explain how we were created and animals and why things happen scientifically.
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The modern creation story (The Big Bang) and the ancient creation stories are not so different when they are read in the sense they are supposed to be written in. If the modern myth were to be read literally (the way its supposed to be read), it would be missing the concept that all humans, animals and plants are created for a purpose, or the seperation of humans and why we are special. When reading the ancient myths metaphorically, a purpose is given, but the explanation of how everything was created is a little off, saying there WAS something before nothing, and that skews everything.
ReplyDeleteIn the modern creation story, it speaks in literal terms, unlike in the ancient creation stories or the Greek creation story where they speak metaphorically. Greek or Ancient creation stories are more in specific terms then Modern where they talk more general. The purpose for the modern creation story is to explain in scientific words unlike Ancient creation stories where they just speak metaphorically.
ReplyDeleteThe modern creation theory is very different the the hebrew theory, and they were created by two different people. The big bang theory was created by charles Darwin, a scientist. The hebrew theory originated in the bible which was written by followers of Jesus. Our modern science theory does not have any sort of division like in the Hebrew theory or the Hopi creation story. The ancient stories had creators that slowly made our world. The ancient creation stories answer the questions of the world like how we got here and how everything came to be. The big bang theory answers our questions of how we came to be with science. It does not however answer how the sun or how outer space came to be.
ReplyDeleteThe big bang theory is a myth that is meant to be read literaly because it is supported by a scientific explanation, while all the ancient myths are meant to be read metaphorically. The big bang is all from science and based off stuff we know about the universe, the ancient myths are also based off what they new at the time of there civilization. Like the Greek myths, they only new of Sky and the Earth, so to them it probably seemed logical to assume that they were united in a way. We know that there is more out there though then just the sky and we have based our modern myth on those facts and discoveries, so the base of all myths is based off what you know as a civilization.
ReplyDeleteThe two creation stories are different from each other because they have different backgrounds. The modern creation story evolves around science and the Greek creation story revolves around what people believed to be true at the time. They are both alike in the fact that both of the stories are what modern people believed at the time. The modern creation story might even change in years to come because we might believe something new. These stories both answer how and what created the earth and everything we know, but neither answer why. This is intriguing because it’s like only the Gods or higher powers are supposed to know why we are here. These stories are here to answer our wonders of the world and how it came to be, depending on what our civilization believes at the time.
ReplyDeleteThe modern creation story is most-noticeably different from the ancient ones in its presentation; the ancient creation myths are presented as a story with elaborate characters and plots while the Big Bang is very straightforward and explains how a massive cosmic fireball explosion started everything (aka no tale of gods and goddesses). Although the modern creation story is a story, it's not a story in the sense that the ancient myths are. All these creation stories may seem vastly different from the modern one, but they are similar in some ways. For example, the modern and the Greek creation stories both have the same purpose: to provide an explanation for the existence of the universe (and earth and its inhabitants). They answer the same sorts of questions, like how the universe came to be: the Greek myth says that the universe came into being due to light coming from darkness, order coming from chaos, Gaia (earth) coming from an abyssal void and so on; the modern creation myth says that the universe came from a massive explosion and that all the particles of the universe are intertwined. But, they don't answer all questions; both of these myths explain well how everything came to be, but they don't explain certain things, like the purpose of universe's existence, or why it came to be; they also do not answer wonders of who we are, exactly. Fundamental questions like these have always plagued the human race's thoughts, and yet even the most "advanced" explanation of the universe ever cannot explain these common inquiries.
ReplyDeletei think that many of the old creation stories revolve around metaphors of how things came to be rather thatn how they are today, science based trying to reason scientifically how things came to be. the Hopi story revovles around a man and a women who created man and animals by singing songs and laying blankets over some clay figures. now a day in the big bang theory they answer how things came to be but in a way that most people would not understand, there are many equations and big words that alot of people dont know what they mean. alot of the questions not answered in the big bang theory area answered but in a way that many of the people cannot understand so there not really answered in my perspective.
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