Every ethnic group has its own story of creation
How God or Gods in local guise took action to create
and why God made them, that group, special among the nations.
The Bible story, formed by Jewish priests for their nation, is no different,
though perhaps more logical, less prone to anthropomorphic imagery.

At first everything is void and dark yet fluid.
Day 1, separates light from darkness, day from night.
Day 2, makes space by pushing up the vault of the sky.
Day 3, divides the material beneath this vault into earth and sea;
and, then on the earth, vegetation comes into being; unthinking life.
Day 4, creates sun and moon and stars; a simplistic view of the cosmos
Day 5, sees the formation of fishes and birds, thinking mobile life-forms
Day 6, at last sees the creation of land animals of all kinds,
and thus of man as a feeling, potentially spiritual being.
So we see the story of evolution written in scripture;
a primitive view of the discoveries of science
concocted over nomadic camp-fires.

The saga of Israel, composed of many tribes to form a nation,
presents alternative accounts of the early days, tells another story,
promotes male supremacy, attempts to explain the reality of evil,
an explanation of why life is not as good as it could be,
justifies the harsh life of the nomadic tribesman.

So many ideas presented of the origins of humanity
We must hesitate to promote or postulate yet more conceptions.
Why, in our pride, should our ideas be closer to truth than any other.
Yet maybe we could dare to affirm the concept of some form of evolution
of the growth of humanity from primal slime through brute existence
and postulate mankind's further progress to a still better model
the emergence of a form of life beyond our understanding
as far from our conception as we are from the ape;
something to come after further millennia.


Assuming of course
that the present crisis of world starvation and over-population
doesn't explode into atomic, medicinal, or chemical mutual destruction,
Assuming that climate change doesn't bring ecological overload.
Assuming that we don't destroy the created world by our own hands
before it has had time to develop to the fulfilment of its potential.