Those who hold with the Kansas board, which mandated teaching biblical creation in the public schools, might well consider their position from a different perspective.
If their families were transferred to India, and this same line of thinking was imposed by Indian bureaucrats, their children attending public schools would be instructed, tested and graded on the Hindu/Buddhist version of creation.
That tradition–which predates the Genesis account by thousands of years–relates how young gods and goddesses came down to Earth and found it covered by a film. Despite warnings, they ate some of the film and were not allowed to return to heaven for eating the forbidden food.
It was this group that began the process of populating the mortal world. The Hindu Hymn of Creation and the strikingly similar Sumarian Epic of Gilgamesh are doubtless legends arising from cataclysmic flooding that took place when the European glaciers melted 10,000 years ago.
Both these accounts were recorded many centuries before the Genesis version of the flood, and of Noah and his ark saving the human race and all animal species.
It’s interesting to note, however, that these Eastern versions of creation answer a question left unexplained in the biblical story, i.e. where did the females come from who were the mothers of all those males named in the “begats”?
