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Hi everyone, my name is Jordan. I'm in section 21 and I live in Brecon. I've lived in St. Augustine, Florida for the past five years, and Suburbia, Indiana for the ten before that. I'm not quite sure where home is, though.

My current religious perspective is "If we were supposed to know about a God, we'd know already" so I don't really let religious conundrums bother me anymore. In my home, we (my younger sister and brother, and I) weren't really raised particularly religiously, just with a vague Christian vibe whenever Christmas and Easter rolled around and when we had to say grace at our grandparents' house. Four or five years ago I started going to a Baptist church with my best friend, then left when I realized that being there didn't make me happy.

As far as Creation stories go, I don't really believe any particular one more than any other. As I attempted to explain in class, I just think of them as stories. If I happen to be in a discussion concerning religious beliefs, I'll assume that Genesis is the "truth" in the situation. If I'm talking science and logic (or pretty much anything besides religion) I'll go with the generally accepted view of Darwinism. But I don't really care either way, which one's "real" doesn't matter to me because even if something is real, if nobody believes it it might as well be fiction.

Like I said, Creation stories are all just stories to me, but I chose this Apache one for a few reasons. First, I like it. I haven't read this one in particular before, but I've read similar ones and I like them too. Second, it depicts a lot of things that are different from what one usually would think, like how people came from the Underworld, the daughters of the Ancient Man and Woman, and the repetition of the number four. I also find the creation of the first woman amusing. Third, and my favorite, the God-figure in the story makes a lot of decisions for no reason besides the fun of it. It makes more sense in my mind, because so much in life is nonsensical. If there's a god, it has a sense of humor.

http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/CS/CSCreation&Emergence.html