A Creation Myth for Science
August 5th, 2007
featured, portfolio, science, writingHere is a scientifically accurate creation story, in the style of Genesis I. I did my best to keep mysticism, remove Yahweh, and incorporate certain substantial omissions from Moses’ version.
In the beginning there was everything, and everything was one; eternal and without measure.
And the universe exploded into being, forming the first element and the second element in the proportion of three to one, creating the billions of galaxies and nebulae; and by the thirteenth eon there were billions of ancestral suns.
The ancestral suns burned the first element for several eons to form the second element and the third element and so on down to the twenty-sixth element; and the ancestral suns collapsed each in their time, and exploded in every direction; and from their remains arose the billions of elder suns.
The elder suns burned for several more eons, and further formed the second and third elements and so on down to the twenty-sixth element.
And the elder suns collapsed each in their time, and exploded in every direction; and the heavens were filled with stars, including the Sun: and they have burned for several eons and will burn for several more. So the ninety-two elements were created; and they settled to form the planets, including the Earth which came to orbit the Sun; and also the moons, including the Moon which came to orbit the Earth.
So the Earth spun night and day and night again, and the rock and ocean and atmosphere was separated by the fifth eon; and volcanoes made mountains; and rivers carved canyons; and the Moon brought the tides; and the wind blew and the rain fell without question.
In the ocean there came to be a form of proto-life, which was reproduction; reproduction begat evolution; evolution begat metabolism; and by the fourth eon there were simple cells.
Some simple cells became proto-plants, which ate from the sun; but their waste accumulated and became poison to them. And some simple cells became aerobia, which ate the bodies and breathed the waste; and by the third eon the eighth element had come to equilibrium in the atmosphere.
The simple cells and proto-plants and aerobia evolved independently; and by the second eon they had merged into compound cells, which ate from the Sun, and also the Earth.
Some compound cells became joined and formed coral and fungus; and one cell brought forth many cells that grew differently, yet functioned as one. And by the first eon, the earth had vegetation.
Vegetation became plants yielding seed, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, and flowers feeding insects which spread their seed. And there came to be fish in the ocean, and birds in the air, and all manner of animals along the ground; the larger ate the weaker and the smallest ate the waste, and it was equilibrium.
And it came to pass that australopithicus, which walked upright on two feet, begat homo habilis, which hunted with tools; habilis begat erectus, which captured fire; and erectus begat sapiens, which moved their tongues in speech.
Now it is the end of the first eon; and homo sapiens is man and woman.
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I love it!
Today I found Let There Be Light (is this the same Robert Fripp as the guitarist from King Crimson?), written in 2001.
I found another Scientific Creation Story, written in the late 1970s. More detailed and less mythopoetic. There are several other creation stories on that same archive one level up.