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Creation stories were told in a time when people did not have a good understanding of how the physical world worked. Without modern science to shed light on such topics as the formation of our planet, and the history of the natural world such things were explained by attributing them to supernatural beings. Various deities were said to have built the world and made all the plants animals that are found there today.

Many modern religions still retain creation stories as part of their belief system.

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