Abstract
What a huge difference it made when Aborigines learned-from Genesis-we're all one big family. Back in the late 1970s when I was visiting Mossman, North Queensland, Australia, not that far from where my mother was born and grew up (Babinda), I met a missionary who was in charge of a settlement for Australian Aborigines. The missionary told me that one day he read to the people the Bible's account of the creation of the first woman, Eve: "So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man" (Genesis 2:21-22). After he read this, one of the older Aboriginal elders said, "How come you have a story about the creation of woman, like we do, only your story's better?"