Scientia-Genesis

Scientia-Genesis

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

there was nothing

lacking emptiness

a colourless abyss

Let there be light!

sound so loud it can only be felt

follows light

a brilliance filling the void

dark brightness

and gone.

Silent

Let there be firmament!

energy transmutes

matter becomes atoms.

congregations of dust

magnetic gravity pulling particles to themselves,

colliding combining dividing and spiralling outwards

mass and density building until

stars birthed

planets born.

Let the waters under the heaven be congregated into one place!

erupting volcanoes send out scars of red and black fire

white lightning crackles randomly strikes

unseen hands prise open the planet’s heart

energised atmosphere electrified

life vapour washes the ionosphere

filling the skies, the earth with fertile potential

oceans and seas combine

creating germs of existence.

Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth!

the world stops churning, stops ripping open

the volcanic smog dissipates, the lightening lessens

the sky clears

the blue planet glows in its glory

at last stars and the moon, the sun shine clearly.

Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that have life and fowl that may fly!

the soup of existence churns

from amoeba beginnings life forms flood

until dinosaurs swim the oceans, roam the earth

with feather less and feathered birds soaring in the sky.

Then on the sixth day:

Let the earth bring forth living creatures after his kind ... and every living creature after its kind!

dinosaurs gone disappeared in a fragment of time

a remnant left on the land in the sea

mammals develop, the dominating species

filling the seas the land

amongst them all, one grows predominate

bipedal man

from Africa eastward a garden was planted

humanities Eden

there was established our sapient man

there grew the tree of life, the spreading tree of knowledge.

the Euphrates valley verdant and green

human civilisation’s accepted birthplace

Of the tree of knowledge thou shalt not eat of it: for on the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Earth moved through its regular cycles,

destroying its Euphrates paradise.

To survive homo-sapiens rippled outwards

over millennia to reach every landmass

new civilisations follow rising and falling

ignorant of the first

now sapient man knows good from evil

now cast out from pleasurable Eden

with no access to the tree of knowledge

sapient man must live and strive.