Buan, Ivan Kyle N.

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Chinese Filipino Christian

Source of the World A big black egg None Heaven and Earth

Originator of the World Pan Gu None God

Pan Gu woke up and

cracked the egg because The world had only the
he was inside it. He sea and the sky, and
cracked it and push it between the sea and the
apart with his feet sky, flew a beautiful kite.
planted at the bottom Unfortunately, this
and his hands at the top. lovely bird had no home,
The upper half became and in frustration, began
the sky and the lower to stir up the sea. The
How the Earth Formed half became the earth. sea angrily crashed
He continued pushing against the sky, and the
them apart that he kept sky threw pieces of land
on growing and the two to quell the sea’s anger.
halves kept on getting The pieces of land that
thicker. When he died the sky threw became
after 18000 years, his islands. Then, the sky
body parts formed ordered the kite to live
various parts of the on an island.
earth.
He is typically depicted
as a dwarf even though
he was actually a giant
covered in hair or
First Life Forms bearskin or leaves, with Beautiful Bird or Kite
horns fixed atop his head
and either a chisel or a
hammer or an egg in his
hand.
The land breeze and sea
breeze’s marriage
produced a bamboo,
which struck the heel of
the kite who pecked at
it, and from one section
came out a man and
another a woman who
The parasites on his
bore many children.
How Humans are formed body became the first
Their father out of
life forms.
desperation over their
offsprings’ uselessness
started beating his
children, who happened
to be the different races
of the world: chiefs,
slaves, free men,
negroes, and white men.
In the beginning when
God created the heavens
and the earth, the earth
was a formless void, and
darkness was over the
surface of the deep, and
the Spirit of God was
hovering over the
waters. He created
everything including all
life forms in six days.
The great creatures of
the sea and every living
thing of every kind that
moves in the teeming
water, and every winged
bird of every kind that
God Created.
God created humankind
in his own image and
likeness. He created a
man from dust and
created a woman from a
man’s rib for him to have
a companion. God
blessed them and said to
them, “Be fruitful and
increase in number; fill
the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish in the
sea and the birds in the
sky and over every living
creature that moves on
the ground.”
 I do not really understand the relationship of religion and science but what I try to do is to
believe that these two coexist. I did not choose between the two that I did was I tried to connect or
relate the things I read or understand with these two in order to fully understand our origin or how we
are made. I believe that religion tells us how we are made, how we started, how we lived before and
science, on the other hand, explains these things properly. Religion is the overview of our origin while
science is the detailed explanation of it. I believe that we have a God who created the universe, the
earth, and us human beings but I really think there is something more than that, something beyond our
present knowledge. Where in the only one who can explain this is science. For example, we know that
God created everything we know, he created the universe but the real question is how. How did he
come up with these masterpiece, did he just snap his fingers then all this were created? Did he just let a
word out of his mouth then all these stars, planets, or this universe just showed up? I do not think so. I
believe there is a specific explanation, detailed process that can only be unveiled by science. If you will
think of it, a lot of things make sense when you interconnect these two, a lot of things will be easier to
understand. Like, God created man with dust in his own image and likeness and here is science
explaining how can a man create an offspring. God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to
separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two
great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made
the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the
night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and
there was morning. And here is science how are stars created, how were the sun and moon created, and
why we have morning and night. These two for me does not contradict each other, what I see are two
sides of the same coin wherein they are filled with different perspectives, beliefs, and ideas which are
really meant to be understood together, meant to be interconnected in order to fully understand
everything we should know in our lives starting from the very beginning up to the last breath of our
lives. Because I think the answer that we are looking for, the one we are waiting for can be discovered
once these two really interconnected and learn how to really coexist with one another.

References:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/what-is-big-history/origin-stories/a/
origin-story-judeo-christian

https://travelwithbender.com/travel-blog/guest-blog/3-creation-stories-from-the-philippines

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/doherty/plan2/kalyracreation.html

https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-folklore/pangu-and-chinese-creation-myth-00347

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pan-Gu