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Episode 2: Before the Flood (The Enuma Elish and Atrahasis)

Literature and History

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Creation Stories - A Brief History of Creation Stories

Genesis is the most widely printed and circulated creation narrative on the planet. We have a general tendency as a species to tell stories about why things are the way they are, he says. Discoveries in astronomy from Copernicus onward have tended to spoil certain creation stories. But some creation stories are still alive and well,. Stories like this one. It wasn't even 400 years ago that Galileo committed the ultimate party fowl by saying we're actually just kind of spinning around out here.

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