___________________________________________________ 1 In the beginning, God created heavens and earths. 2 And upon one of the earths, God made men in great numbers. 3 For His pleasure and in His image, God created men, and provided a problem worthy of their minds: He left them with too little food. 4 The evening and the morning were the first day. And God saw that it was good. 5 Seeing there was not enough food for all of them, the people fought and killed each other, and some of them horded food. Some starved, while others grew fat. 6 God saw the wickedness of man, that it was great in the earth, and it grieved God that he had made man. 7 God said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, unless they repent. 8 And God sent aids and earthquakes and tidal waves to reduce their numbers, and when they still did not repent, but kept on fighting and hording, God sent the gentle birds with inborn death. 9 The evening and the morning were the second day, and great was the death in it. 10 Then pestilence rose up from the earth and fiery rocks fell from heaven until all the animals died, and only some plants remained alive. 11 The evening and the morning were the third day. 12 Then the mountains roared, and gray clouds blocked the sun, so the plants had no light; and all the plants died. 13 The evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God saw that it was good. 14 Then the water boiled and the earth became acid and hot. Venus clouds shrouded the earth, and nothing could live because of the acid and the heat. 15 The evening and the morning were the fifth day. 16 Then the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 17 On the sixth day, a probe descended, sent from another world. God saw the probe, that it was good, and took renewed pleasure in the mind of man. 18 God believed once more that man was strong, as He was strong, that man would understand. Created in His own image, they would understand. ______________________________________________