1. Creation through a divine being: The book of Genesis in The Bible says that "God" created the Earth and everything around it, out of nothing, in just 6 days, while resting of the 7th day. This is scientifically inaccurate because all matter comes from something else. It can't be created.
2. Earth-Diver Creation: This is very common within Native American folklore. The Cherokee creation belief describes the earth as a great floating
island surrounded by seawater. It hangs from the sky by cords attached
at the four cardinal points. he story tells that the first earth came to be when Dâyuni'sï, the little Water beetle
came from Gälûñ'lätï, the sky realm, to see what was below the water.
He scurried over the surface of the water, but found no solid place to
rest. He dived to the bottom of the water and brought up some soft mud.
This mud expanded in every direction and became the earth. There is no evidence that could support this myth. Native American myths tend to lean on the far-fetched spectrum and are more into the storytelling rather than the actual facts.
3. Emergence Creation: The Navajo believe in the Spider Woman. According to mythology she was responsible for the stars in the sky; she
took a web she had spun, laced it with dew, threw it into the sky and
the dew became the stars. This is scientifically false because it goes back to the fact that matter cannot be created out of nothing.
4. Creation by dismemberment of a being: The
Hindu Creation myth of the Man shows his dismemberment to create the different
men of the Earth. Different parts of his body, like his arms and feet, became
servants and nobles, while his eye became the Sun. With all the heat and radiation the Sun gives off, there is no way scientifically that a man's eyes could be used as the main heat and light source for the entire planet.
5. Creation by the splitting or ordering of a primordial unity such as the cracking of a cosmic egg or a bringing order from chaos: In the Korean creation myth, a creator,
Kireuk, destroys each of the two suns and moons, and creates starts with the
destroyed suns and moons. This is an interesting myth, as it gets into the creation of stars, but no single person can destroy the sun.
The Big Bang Theory is legitimate because it has actual facts that back it up. We have special radio/micro wave
telescopes which have seen microwave residue that are consistent with the Big Bang
Theory. This theory accounts for how old the Universe actually is. Many different sources using many different ways have dated the Universe at 15 billion years old.
Another reason the Big Bang Theory works is the redshift of galaxies. The redshift of distant galaxies means that the Universe is
probably expanding.
If we then go back far enough in time, everything must have been
squashed together into a tiny dot. The rapid eruption from this tiny dot
was the Big Bang.
