What evidence do you have that "In the beginning..." from Genesis 1 is not the beginning of Earth, then humanity and life?

You may be partially correct but I don't want to lend credence to any of the nonsense in some previous answers. A pastor I respect said that "Tu hu ve bu hu" in Hebrew can mean either that the Earth, :"was void and without form." or, "became void and without form".

The problem exist within the same book, Genesis highlights a beginning and an end, and then other scripture highlights the word Eternity which means Infinite Time where there is no beginning nor end..... The writers of the Bible want it both ways to mean the same thing, Time is an illusion, science will catch up to that idea eventually, they are already starting to believe we are living in some holographic universe possibly...now they finally might be starting to understand mans understanding of God is very primitive.

There is no evidence of a God at all.

-Corvus Blackthorne

1. The odds against our universe existing at all are so astronomical the human mind cannot even fathom.

2. The odds against a planet, that can sustain life are even greater.

3. The odds against an environment in which life could evolve (existing long enough for life to evolve) are incalculable.

Simple fact is there must be a God or the sciences that study the fact that we do exist are simply unhinged.

Have a nice day.

It is, and obviously was the beginning of God created man in the garden of Eden. Where does it say the time Adam, or Eve were there before the fall? O, you missed that. Where is the garden of Eden, and its size, and where can one find remnants of at least two of its gates today?

"We know abiogenesis is proven false." Any particular reason why you would blatantly lie about this? Everything I've read about it strongly suggest that abiogenesis is possible through many mechanisms and that it is very likely that our definition of life only applies to the limited sample that we have. So far there is no indication that life is not a natural process or that it needs anything remotely supernatural to cause it to happen.

"m making a claim here and supporting it with evidence...", no, you have not provided anything remotely resembling evidence and nothing that is objectively verifiable that would support your claims.

All the objectively verifiable evidence that we have, does not support anything like what Genesis claims throughout the entire book. Based on the evidence, we have to conclude that the entire book of Genesis is pure fabrication, or at best, so embellished that it has lost any relation to the events that it claims to have happened.

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"Why is this evidence not valid to you if it is corroborated, verifiable, and testable?" The Bible is not "corroborated, verifiable, and testable" in any way, on the other hand, we know and have verified multiple ways that abiogenesis could have happened from "organic soup" to "metabolism first" to the point that you have to concede that life is inevitable in the right conditions. On the other hand, when we look for any evidence that the Bible is close to being verifiable, there is very little to support most of its claims until about the time of Solomon and nothing to support any sort of claim made about God.

Here's an interesting nugget to mull over - Most Christians that reverence God's Word believe that the world was created shortly before God created man, which isn't true and can be proven with other supporting scriptures throughout the Bible.

Between the the first 2 verses of Genesis (1:1-2) there is a very big gap in time!

"1)In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. {<<<<<GAP IN TIME>>>>>} 2)And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

Scientist now that date the Earth as being millions/billions of years old are probably quite accurate and it doesn't disagree with what the Bible actually teaches about it!

There was a race of creatures in what is known as the "1st Earth Age" that were flooded for rebelling against God with Lucifer. This first race of "creatures" that lived on the Earth that were killed by a global flood(Not Noah's flood) are what we now refer to as demons. They are disembodied spirits now that seek a vessel(body) to live in. Demons reside in a part of Hell called The Pit until they are allowed to escape/leave which I'm not 100% percent what gives them the right to come out.

This is also the point in time when dinosaurs existed and the flood is why they don't exist anymore. This flood was also turned instantly into ice, which is why we've found dinosaurs fossils where they still have food in their mouths!

This can all be verified through scripture!

If anybody wants this information I can link you to it, and it will show you all the scriptures to support this.

'I'm making a claim here and supporting it with evidence'

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

What evidence do you have that 'In the beginning' ISN'T total BAD fiction ?

"Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand.] If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem." Neil deGrasse Tyson

-If the Universe needs a creator, why doesn't god?

If god doesn't need a creator, why does the Universe ?-

Checkmate, sparky.

Bigger question is what do you have other than some text in an ancient manuscript that that is what really happened?

"We know abiogenesis is proven false."

We know nothing of the sort. We do know that life first appeared on this planet about 3.5 billion years ago. The process by which it appeared is termed abiogenesis which is life from non-life. We do not know the exact process but we know it happened because 4 billion years ago there was no life but 3 billion years ago there was. If you want a god to trigger the first life, feel free. There is room for a god there until science shows how it really happened. You then have to show where the god came from but that's another matter.

There are many creation stories from around the world, Genesis has two different ones. The Genesis stories are no more valid and are supported by no more evidence than the Dreaming stories of Australian Aboriginal people.