The Creation with Poetic License

About 10,000 years ago there was nothing. No time, no space, no matter. There was nothing in existence at all. Except God. God began his creation before Earth ever had a start. The moment time started ticking, God made heaven and created beings called angels to worship him and serve him. Ultimately, that would be the role of all living things to come.

All physical matter was created in six literal days. On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth, but all was empty. Our planet is the emphasis of the story and the first anything to appear at all. It began as a shapeless mass of water but, at the first, if we had been there, we would have seen nothing; there was no light. Then God said, “Let there be light!” and everything snapped into beautiful colour, reflecting this supernatural illumination. The first day, having begun with the light of day, ended with night as evening came to completion.

On the second day, as light once again began to glow its second dawn on the liquid Earth, God did another great work and the water of the Earth became divided. Below, a smaller sphere of water formed and, above that, the atmosphere, composed of water, encircled the earth. And, again, darkness fell out of the evening upon the watery Earth.

The third day brought the greatest miracle of the Creation yet. God had plans to bring the first biological organisms into the world. But the world was still wholly made of water and, God wasn’t going to limit them to an aquatic existence. He loves diversity and dry land was a must for that. Suddenly, the water sank away and land rose from the waters. The earth was no longer uniform blue. It was bi-color.

Day three was the beginning of a beautiful trend in biodiversity. Plants,
especially angiosperms (flowering plants), would have produced such
variety of colour. Today is only a tiny flavour of what it was in the
beginning.

And then vegetation appeared. The face of the earth flushed with green joy and the sea experienced its first and best plankton bloom. Moisture filled the air and furbished the plants into life and growth. The Lord made a very important statement for these living things. He commanded them to reproduce “after their various kinds.” And it was so. They could reproduce, change, diversify, transfer their genes in many varying ways, but they would always be the same kind.

Day four and beauty became a feature of the entire universe, rather than just earth. It doesn’t seem too remarkable until you think about it. He made the sun, the moon, and the stars. Suddenly, light was of a different sort. Day and night were dictated by something other then supernatural light now. Light would now emanate from natural sources. The laws of nature became more distinct, more like they are today.

If the days of creation had a biological climax, day five was it. The water’s teamed with living creatures. Whales, squid, turtles, you name it. With a second word the air erupted with music; birds had just been created from the dust of the earth and sprung into the atmosphere. But not just birds, every other flying thing streaked across the sky to their first resting places. Pterosaurs, bats, and a fabulous array of insects claimed earth as their own.

The sixth day was no less important for biodiversity. Land had the plants, but now living souls would share the dry ground. At a command, the ungulate herbivores, small creeping creatures, wild dogs and cats, and a host of other creatures marked the finish of God’s creative act of nature, and he loved them. All of these living creatures, regardless of where they lived, were also commanded to reproduce after their kinds. And they obeyed.

This day would be different than the rest. Nature would not be left alone. It was God’s intent to make a keeper, a steward of all that he had created, Adam, the ruler of all God’s creatures. The breath of God coursed through man’s body and he became a conscious soul. God’s first command to man was to name “the beasts of field” (those creatures that moved in herds) and the flying creatures. The brilliant perfect mind that he had, Adam found the task too easy.

God loves good stories and Adam was lonely. It was time for the first romance. Adam fell asleep. This would be a special creation. While Adam, all the land animals, and the flying creatures had been made from mere dust of the earth, the woman would be made from Adam’s side. He awoke and found the love of his life, Eve. God himself orchestrated the first marriage.

Then God grew sober and he gave them a command; “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Mankind would be solely responsible for the well being of the animals. The second command of God was conservation.