Myths of Creation

Where did the Earth come from? Did God create it in six days, as related in Genesis? Did a deity tear himself into pieces, with his breath, limbs and blood becoming air, earth and water? Did it come into existence through the mating of gods - a common theme in Egyptian, Greek and Oceanian mythology? Or did the universe form over billions of years out of whirling chaos, as modern science and astronomy would have us believe? Alternative hypotheses range from those dating from mankind's oldest...