"In the beginning, Eurynome, the Goddess of All Things, rose naked from Chaos, but found nothing substantial for her feet to rest upon, and therefore divided the sea from the sky, dancing lonely upon its waves. She danced towards the south, and the wind set in motion behind her seemed something new and apart with which to begin a work of creation. Wheeling about, she caught hold of this north wind, rubbed it between her hands, and behold! the great serpent Ophion. Eurynome danced to warm herself, wildly and more wildly, until Ophion, grown lustful, coiled about those divine limbs and was moved to couple with her. Now, the North Wind, who is also called Boreas, fertilizes; which is why mares often turn their hind-quarters to the wind and breed foals without aid of a stallion. So Eurynome was likewise got with child.
Next, she assumed the form of a dove, brooding on the waves and, in due process of time, laid the Universal Egg. At her bidding, Ophion coiled seven times about this egg, until it hatched and split in two. Out tumbled all things that exist, her children: sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs, and living creatures.
Eurynome and Ophion made their home upon Mount Olympus, where he vexed her by claiming to be the author of the Universe. Forthwith she bruised his head with her heel, kicked out his teeth, and banished him to the dark caves below the earth.
Next, the goddess created the seven planetary powers, setting a Titaness and a Titan over each. Theia and Hyperion for the Sun; Phoebe and Atlas for the Moon; Dione and Crius for the planet Mars; Metis and Cocus for the planet Mercury; Themis and Eurymedon for the planet Jupiter; Tethys and Oceanus for Venus; Rhea and Cronus for the planet Saturn. But the first man was Pelasgus, ancestor of the Pelasgians; he sprang from the soil of Arcadia, followed by certain others, whom he taught to make huts and feed upon acorns, and sew pig-skin tunics such as poor folk still wear in Euboea and Phocis."
So said the Pelasgians, among the ancient Greeks. Why don't we take it from
there instead? What fault, if any, do you find with that tale, other than it's not the one you prefer?
You'll have noticed that I prefer to enquire into the nature of the universe and the possibilities of its origins by skeptical reasoned enquiry, the specialty of cosmology, which as you know proceeds by scientific method, which is empirical and inductive.
But what the examinable evidence tells us is that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and that the universe is at least 13.8 bn years old, and that life has existed on earth since between 3.5 and 4 bn years ago.
Yes, but rather than being persuaded that Eurynome, the Goddess of All Things, created All Things, I'm more interested in how it actually happened. And at this point of time we don't know (and when I say 'we', I include all religions). But we're interested enough in the topic to put the James Webb up in the sky to tell us more, in succession to the Hubble. It was science, not any religion*, that put men on the moon and rovers on Mars and put Voyager 1 on the far side of the heliopause. Not even the concept of such things existed when the bible was written.
* But an argument can be made that empiricism and skeptical enquiry historically trace their origins back to the ancient Greeks.
No, my "bias" is for reasoned skeptical enquiry, hence in this case for scientific method.
