A Dictionary of Creation Myths (Oxford Paperback Reference)

I am glad that the Big Bang Theory comes early in the alphabet. That allowed me to abort this book before I had invested very much time on it. The book was strangely hard to get into, the creation myths recited with a dry style that didn't manage to capture my interest, and I was preparing for a long slog. Then I came to the Big Bang. The entry for this scientific theory was so awful, so extremely wrong, so uninformed, that I wondered how well the author had researched the myths. It was bad enough that Big Bang was presented as just another idea that some culture once dreamed up, with no indication of the amount of evidence that backed it up; I could put up with that in a book of this nature, if the information given had even resembled show more what the theory really says. Too bad. This book will go on the shelf and not come back off. show less

This small book compares Creation stories from all over the world. Pulling from many different languages and cultures, this books shows how similar many of them are. Fascinating read!