The Genesis 1 creation story is derived from a depraved polytheistic Babylonian myth called Enuma Elish.  Scholars believe this because there are several converging similarities between Genesis 1 and Enuma Elish.  Below is a list: 

     Genesis 1 says that creation took place over seven days.  Likewise, Enuma Elish is a creation account written on seven tablets. 

     Genesis 1 says that humans were created on the sixth day.  Likewise, the creation of humans is recorded on Enuma Elish’s sixth tablet.[1] 

     Genesis 1 says that God made the sun, moon, and stars to be signs for times and seasons.  Likewise, Enuma Elish says that the sun, moon, and stars were created in the form of constellations, and rules were established to govern them so that they don’t "wander."[2] 

     Genesis 1 says that a solid ceiling, or firmament, was spread out above us to hold the weight of an ocean in the sky.[3]  This firmament must be quite strong to support the weight of the water.[4]  Likewise, Enuma Elish says that there is an ocean in the sky, and that the torso of a dead goddess named Tiamat forms a firmament to support its weight.[5]

     Genesis' Priestly account of the Flood, which bears many markings of Genesis 1's cosmological assumptions, asserts that there are fountains of the ocean deep that can spring up and flood the land.[6]  Likewise, Enuma Elish asserts that the god Marduk took the breasts of the dead goddess Tiamat and made mountains of them.  Then he ran fountains from the ocean deep through her nipples to make springs, rivers, and lakes.[7]

     Genesis 1 says that "darkness was on the face of the deep."  The Hebrew word for "the deep" is Tihom.  In Enuma Elish, the goddess of the ocean deep is called Tiamat.  The two words are obvious cognates, and they are both identified with the depths of the ocean.  Enuma Elish tells how Tiamat was killed by the god Marduk, and so it is natural that Genesis 1 mention that "darkness was on the face of Tihom (the deep)" – because Tihom was killed, and so her face was dark.  As Albright put it, "There was originally a statement in verse 2 mentioning specifically and succinctly the triumph of God over the great Deep – Tehom = Acc. (Accadian) Tiamat – which was later deleted."[8]

     The very next phrase in Genesis 1 continues, "and the Spirit of God moved over the waters."  The Hebrew word for spirit here is Ruach, which can also mean "wind."  According to Enuma Elish, the god Marduk killed Tiamat by blowing a hurricane of wind into her belly and exploding her from the inside out.[9]  Wind moving over the waters is apparently the Bible’s way of remembering this primordial hurricane.

     Why is their so much bloodshed in Enuma Elish?  According to Enuma Elish, the goddess Tiamat was pregnant with the gods.  She decided to kill her own children.  But the gods hired a hit man named Marduk who killed her instead.

     Genesis 1 bears all the markings of a sanitized "G-Rated" version of an earlier "X-Rated" Babylonian myth.  The authors of Genesis 1 probably didn’t care about whether their story was scientifically accurate or not.  They couldn't prove that the earth was created in six days, nor did they care to do so.  They just wanted to create a theologically acceptable alternative to the popular nonsense of the day.

     From a theological standpoint, it is rather disturbing that creationists are defending a regurgitated Babylonian myth, especially in light of what the Revelation tells us about Babylon: 

 

MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.[10] 

Revelation speaks of this "whore of Babylon" clothed in red, who drinks the blood of the saints, and she is usually interpreted to represent false religion.  Enuma Elish is straight out of Babylon, and it represents a very depraved and false religion indeed!  Enuma Elish is the spawn of Babylon, and Genesis 1 is its sibling.  Thus, we might rightfully label the entire creationist worldview as a child of the Whore of Babylon!

     At the heart of both Enuma Elish and Genesis 1 is an erroneous earth-centered assumption about the solar system.  When the ancients saw the sun set in the west, toward the Mediterranean Sea, they reasoned that the sun sank into the ocean.  What keeps the sun in the ocean during the nighttime?  Perhaps a big monster keeps it hostage in the ocean deep.  In order for the sun to rise, a hero must kill the monster.  Tiamat was the monster and Marduk was the hero.  When the monster is disposed of, the sun and the waters of the ocean are free to ascend to the heavens, and that's why we have sunlight and rainwater. 

     Seeing that this myth is thoroughly refutable on the basis of scientific fact, we may discard it as ignorant superstition; and, since Genesis 1 is derived from this nonsense, we may discard it also. 

          Yet there is an element of scientific truth to Enuma Elish.  The myth states that the primordial mother goddess Tiamat wanted to kill her own children.  In this, she is like Mother Nature.  Natural selection is made possible when Mother Nature sacrifices her own children before they procreate, thus bringing about evolution by means of cleansing the gene pool.  In this, the Babylonian myth Enuma Elish is actually more scientific than Genesis 1, for Tiamat is truly a symbol of Mother Nature, in that she kills her own children.

Click to read more about how we know Genesis 1 is a forgery.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts.  Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity.  The angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.  There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them.  Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1.  Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.  Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve.  Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas.  Evolution often happens too fast for Darwin’s theory.  Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection.  Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us.  The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species.  Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the world’s religions. 

This is not fiction.  All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.

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