Genesis: The Beginning

First off, I just wanted to say that I don't believe in God, and less in what the Bible says so, without meaning any disrespect to others or to believers, I might have a lot of disagreements and opposing comments towards the content of Genesis.

Now that I said that, I had always heard the story of how God created the Earth in seven days, but it was very interesting for me to see how exactly he made it, and what each step was. When it is described how the world was chaos before God started changing it, I realized it was very similar to the chaos described in Metamorphoses. I liked the description of the six days of work and then the seventh of rest.

Anyways, I know that there is no real proof that one religion is more accurate than others, but there were some parts I completely disagree with, and think they are impossible. When it said "And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas,(Gen. 1)" I think God can take credit for anything he wants except for language. Men alone worked very hard at it, and it was developed a long time after the creation of Earth.

I also think that it is a little disrespectful and unfair to let men "have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Gen. 1)" Why do men have preference over animals? Aren't we all living creatures and supposedly equal? Well, at least that is what Buddhism thinks (sorry for the comparison).

Okay so, enough criticism. One thing I had never heard before was about the parting of the four rivers. It really surprised me that I had no idea about this part of the most important "chapter" in the Bible. "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. (Gen. 1)" It was weird, but interesting.

At least in the part where "Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field (Gen. 1)" it was a man who named the animals, and not God himself.

I am very interested in knowing what will happen next in Genesis, to learn more about a very known, but unknown to me, religion.