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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Now i am quite open minded.I accept that science knows very little beyond our galaxy and even solar system.
My problem with people taking the story of creation/Genesis literally is that much of it,Infact most of it contradicts things that are known today with evidence to back them up and the timeline.
Also the fact that it is so earth centric when the reality is that the earth is little more than a spec of dust in the context of our universe and is probably not all that special.
Why would the word of god only inform us of our miniscule existence and nothing beyond our planet.
It is imo because this is a Jewish story with influences from even older religions written by mankind to try and understand the then totally unexplained.
As for the creation of the universe it is my opinion that humanity is way too small to ever understand it beyond the aftermath of the big bang.

I saw something recently about this, the question some religious people ask about - but who created the universe then? you can say maybe it's always existed, who created God then? Maybe he's always existed..........stale mate