Genesis is more like a poem. It is poetry. Or a deep, emotional song (sound, really), depending on how you look at it.

The reason it is so beautiful is because it does not literally describe what happened. Just like in poetry, it does not literally say, “Peter walked toward John,” yet you can often infer what happened from the text.

It is more a poem about transferring responsibility. From the moment everything began, to the responsibility that now lies within life itself.

The fact that making—creating—is so deeply woven into our nature is something very special. Our universe did not have to create itself at all. It just as easily could not have happened. And something entirely different could just as easily have happened instead.

Why the Big Bang cannot be the only origin:
It is only one angle. If something is created, or if something comes into being, it is never just one thing happening. It is always multiple things happening at the same time.

If there were no consciousness, life would be a dot instead of a circle. The same things would happen, but we would not register them in the right way.

* Why consciousness came into being simultaneously with the Big Bang