The great Rev. Dr. Wolfmueller dropped an amazing video and it has my mind swimming. In it, he contrasts the Bablyonian creation epic with the truth of God. In the former, Marduk, the Babylonian patron deity, is selected for his great powers to defeat Tiamat, the dragon queen of chaos, death, and the sea (very common symbolism, also seen in Leviathan). In a gory detail, Marduk rips apart Tiamat's corpse piece by piece and uses it to form the world. You can then imagine what a science class for a Babylonian versus an Israelite would look like. For an Israelite, the world is made through peace and authority, but for a Babylonian, the world consists of chaos, death, and is ruled by power.
One of his phrases at the end, though, really set my imagination ablaze: "I think Marduk would like the Big Bang." The idea is a comparison between the violent explosion of the big bang and the great battle between Tiamat and Marduk. However, I think the connection goes even deeper. Remember, Tiamat is not just a great beast, but she is the embodiment of chaos, death, and the sea. From the Darwinian perspective, one really has to tell the same story about the world! Not only did the universe begin from a violent explosion, but all things come about through chaos and chance. The genome appears from random circumustances which just so happened to have the impossible outcome of creating life. Our further survival and propogation is itself propped up by means of death, and like the ship of Theseus, our bodies have changed so many times that soon enough we too are made of these deaths. We are living corpses, carrying the body parts of our ancestors, waiting to die so that our children can sake ours with them. And finally, the sea. In the evolutionary schema, we also see this life come up from the sea to land, so that the many deaths which it must face will finally produce us.
In other words, we enlightened modern man have done little more than fall back into the myths of the pagans, propped up by demons over and against the one true God. The result is that humanity is, from the beginning, corrupt, chaotic, and dead. This is true for us, but the Lord did not make this world from death. Rather, he creates from nothing because he is the preexistent one. And what's more, in Christ, the child of God is once more made new so that he is not fuelled by chaos or death but by Life Himself.
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