Former Osage Principal Chief Jim Gray and his wife Olivia Gray (Osage) recently took to Facebook to condemn their daughter’s world history assignment inquiring about the world’s beginning.
How did the world start? Well, that depends on how, exactly, you define “the world”, doesn’t it?
If you mean Earth as a planet, it started thanks to gravity pulling together a collection of dust and gas orbiting the early sun through a process called “accretion”.
Animals have no concept of “morality” so good and evil didn’t exist until humans invented them. Sumerian cuneiform records early religious rites from 4,000 BC, but the concepts of “good” and “evil” like fire and the wheel pre-date written language and cannot be precisely dated.
Human beings are born as blank slates with no prior knowledge of good, evil, or anything else. All that is learned behavior. They are inherently neither.
How did the world start? Well, that depends on how, exactly, you define “the world”, doesn’t it?
If you mean Earth as a planet, it started thanks to gravity pulling together a collection of dust and gas orbiting the early sun through a process called “accretion”.
https://news.uchicago.edu/explainer/formation-earth-and-moon-explained
Who started it? Nobody. It was gravity.
https://news.uchicago.edu/explainer/formation-earth-and-moon-explained
When did evil start, or did it always exist?
Animals have no concept of “morality” so good and evil didn’t exist until humans invented them. Sumerian cuneiform records early religious rites from 4,000 BC, but the concepts of “good” and “evil” like fire and the wheel pre-date written language and cannot be precisely dated.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-westerncivilization/chapter/the-sumerians/
Are people inherently good or evil or neither?
Human beings are born as blank slates with no prior knowledge of good, evil, or anything else. All that is learned behavior. They are inherently neither.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10615/10615-h/10615-h.htm