Genesis vs myth

When you are challenged, usually by an evolution booster (whom you can refer to Mary Midgley's book Evolution as Religion), that the Genesis account is merely another ancient 'creation myth'. Here's fuel for your reply.

It is nothing like myth (read Eliade's Myth of the Eternal Return), rather:

1. it is personal and personally involved in the creation sequence
2. it is ex nihilio and makes no implict assumption that a cosmos 'just is'.
3. it has specific timing and place that is continuous with our real world experience
4. it uses concrete defined time units, the ones we live by and dominate our lives
5. it uses real-world categories for the results of the creative words
6. its creation episodes are ecologially patent
7. it communicates in terms that make sense in the real world
8. it identifies the critical difference between man and animals: rationality.

If you want the three big ones, for an easy rebuttal:

1. it is personal: God has a clear identity, will and purpose
2. it is particular: no vague generalities or symbols
3. it is real: its set here and then, continuous with our world-experience here and now.

Either way, nothing like myth.