# Let's start a new religion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-new-religion/482773>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 24, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-new-religion/482773 "2009-01-24T05:54:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-new-religion/482773/21 "2009-01-27T19:34:51Z")

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> [@chacoguy420](#):
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> Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=503240) thread, I’m thinking that we can produce a “How did I come to exist?” answer that is just as beautiful and amazing; but more thought provoking, than the Biblical one.

It’s hard to beat the scientific creation theory - we started out as a massive explosion, turned into stars, massively exploded, turned into stars, etc until we became a large ball of rock and chemicals that through our own chemical awesomeness we developed inch by inch from ameobas to rats to us. We are at a pinnacle of the development of the very universe itself. (So are cockroaches, but we need not dwell on that.)

It’s also hard to be _less_ beaudiful and amazing than the Biblical explanation for the creation of man: God made out spirits. How? Doesn’t say. Probably just clapped his hands or farted or something. Then he made our bodies. How? He threw some dirt together. Whoopee.

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-new-religion/482773/22 "2009-01-28T22:37:41Z")

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My religeon would have no Creation Story, but a Story of First Revelation, where God makes Himself known to man: this would eliminate problems reconciling biblical creationism with evolution and the big bang.

Also, if God wants something done…GOD DOES IT! Man need not do anything in The Name of God.

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