If Genesis depends on the Babylonian account, as is claimed, why then is it so utterly different from that account? Its assertion that there is only one God, the Creator who is distinct from his creation, stands in direct contradiction to the idolatrous interpretations of the universe that lay at the heart of the polytheistic mythologies of Babylon and elsewhere.13 By ascribing creation to one supreme God who is not himself part of creation, Genesis protests by its very nature against such polytheism.14
