ABSTRACT
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. For a billion years the atoms on Earth met, parted, and remet until a certain semblance of order evolved, and the elements appeared. And as the elements met, parted, and remet, inorganic chemical compounds grew in complexity, and the firmament appeared 3.5 billion years ago. Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom met to form a polar configuration and to become water. As the water rose as vapor, and fell as rain, it was laden with the materials dissolved from the firmament. Organic compounds arranged themselves in myriad ways there arose the most primitive of life in the anaerobic brine. This ancient form of life captured the energy of the sun to transform the atmosphere from anaerobic to aerobic.
