The Myths Created by Stories :: Personal Narrative Papers

The Myths Created by Stories biography as it now exists on Earth, including the simplest bacteria, was obviously derived from a whizz credit line (Mayr, 40). This idea of a single origin has been the instigating factor for the split and on-going battle between the creationists and the evolutionists, between those who believe God created mankind, and those who believe in the pure science of evolution. It is as if believing in a single source willing validate either one of the schools of thought transcendency will come when one office finally convinces the other side of their argument. I was raised Catholic. I do non remember organism told any sort of evolution story. Whether this was a purposeful exclusion or a matter of forgetfulness is to be determined. I learned that in sevensome days God created the earth and made man. That was the story presented, and it seemed reasonable. As I grew up, it seemed more like the story of Santa Clause or the tooth fairy, something that was t old to me, something I took to heart, and was eld later informed of its falsity, all as a matter of forcing me into a sense of maturity. Third graders could not believe in Santa Clause. I held onto the apologue because it felt good, and I received presents, and no one can consider with the positive of receiving presents. Eventually, maturity replaces the myth, and we move forward. Forgetting the stories of our childhood, or at least revising them, leads us to a forward motion, to a more adult sort of being. I suppose this is what happened with my religious beliefs. I am revising them to hold to my newfound adult way of being. To believe without fully understanding is not to completely believe, and trying to understand evolution as it is presented is difficult with the discount that it may be just another myth I will later get to to come to terms with and revise. The idea of understanding is an on-going process, as the story of evolution is to a fault an on-going process. Stor ies are meant to be revised. They are also meant to have a beginning, middle, and an end. The story of evolution conflicts with the concept of storytelling, of writing stories, in so far it is still a story that has survived and will continue to survive. It appeals because it does not have an end.