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Creation / Evolution.
This is what I think...

The creation story was told in response to the Babylonian beliefs during the Babylonian exile. they believed that the world was created when a god killed his mother and the body became the earth and her fluids became the ocean... or something like that... and the Hebrews told this story as a way of showing who their God was and their relation to him.

So, it may or may not be literal. It may be, or It may just be to tell us about God, ourselves, and our world.

Also, and this is why there is so much oil in the middle east, that land used to be lush and fertile, like the garden of Eden. But then it became desert. Perhaps the creation story is pointing back to that time.

God's time is not necessarily the same as our time. One day in his time, if he has time, could be billions in our time.

He could have been the gentle guiding hand in evolution. The change in climate that caused apes to... the Explosion that caused hominids to... It makes sense. Like Aslan in the horse and his boy. There the whole way, silently, unseen, guiding him to Narnia. The lamb that comforted him. The lion that ran after him and scared him into moving faster...

The world is in such order, with atoms, molecules, compounds, cells, tissues, organs, systems, organisms, ecosystems, moons, stars, planets, solar systems... It is really beautiful.

Our teacher was telling us about these scientists who were trying to recreate life, or the big bang, i think it was life on earth. But anyway, they recreated these different conditions, and they had, like, everything figured out but this one thing, one letter in the equation, the spark. (or something like that) Could that not be God?

The big bang... the something out of nothingness... could be... the firework of God...