If the diversity of life is the product of evolution, life itself is the product of abiogenesis, the earth formed naturally from space dust, and matter traces its origins to the Big Bang, then what did God create?
Most creator deities that are now referred to in English as "God" are given as the explanation for the existence of the land and of living things, but this explanation no longer seems relevant in the light of scientific discovery to me.
If you believe in evolution and the Big Bang, then what is God responsible for?
An additional question. If you no longer take your creation myths literally, then why do you take God's existence and role as a creator literally? The two seem to go hand-in-hand to me.
When I was a child there was a board game called Mouse Trap. The object of the game was to set up a sequence of connected mechanical steps, which when triggered by the mouse, would start a chain reaction of connected events, leading to a trap falling on the mouse.
The game was a derivative of setting up dominos, but with each pair of dominos, analogous to connected mechanical steps. For example, a ball bearing might roll down a ramp and would hit a lever, that would release a brake, that would then will cause a pendulum to swing, that hits the net step, etc., etc, all the way to the mouse trap falling and trapping the mouse.
This game is is a good analogy for creation. As God brooded over the deep, the mouse trap game of the universe was all set up, ready to unfold in time, leading to some end game. Let there be light, was like the mouse that triggers the sequence of events that leads to the trap falling.
Science is composed of specialists, who know a lot about one thing area of science. However, as they move away from that area of specialty, they become more and more like a layman. The science that results is composed of disjointed steps, that cannot fully see that a mouse trap game was set up. For example, Quarks are important in Physics, and although Chemistry is the next adjacent science, Chemist do not even use this, even if we intuitively sense these are both connected. There is nobody to make a bridge who can see both sides of two specialties.
In terms of the mouse trap game called the universe, the fusion reactions of stars have populated the universe with atoms. The five more common atoms in the universe are hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen. While the four most abundant atoms in the human body are hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen. This is not a coincidence. Hydrogen gas; H2, water; H2O and carbon monoxide; CO, are the most common molecules in the universe. Water based life was part of the mouse trap game.
The ball bearing of stellar fusion rolls down the ramp, hits the lever, that releases the pendulum that swings to set the stage for life to appear. The game is already set up. However, science is not set up to see it. That would required a more generalist science path for education instead of just specialists.
