christianity

• creation story:

  • God created world for a purpose and "saw it was good"
  • Adam created first
  • Adam was formed from dust and breath of God
• order of creation story:

  1. creation of dark and light
  2. creation of sea and sky
  3. creation of land
  4. creation of moon and sun
  5. creation of water animals
  6. creation of land animals and human
  7. God rested
• • fundamentalist Christians and creationists believe creation story is literal and happened exactly as described
  • liberal Christians believe the creation story can be interpreted
  • some liberal Christians belive God caused the "big bang"