Greek, Mesopotamian and Biblical Accounts of Creation Perhaps many are well-acquainted with "the glory that was Greece." While Greece may have been quite glorious, when it comes to creation stories, they have to share their glory with many, many others. The Greeks were not the only ones with an explanation of how this world came into being, and what man's purpose is in the world: the creation myths of Hesiod and Homer are up against …
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…as well is presented as an afterthought, or the result of coincidental interactions between gods. We see that modern scientists are still groping to come to conclusions concerning the origin of all things. Evidentially, not everyone is willing to believe something simply upon the authority of another; and in the words of the historian Herodotus, "Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best...."