all ‘just happened with a big bang’. Such an explanation is too incredible for words! If I see a building which has sprung up overnight on a spot where there was no building before I am not content with being told ‘it just happened’. I am likely to go further and ask, ‘Who put it there? How was it built and for what purpose?’ Similarly these are the kind of questions Genesis addresses itself to in relation to man and his world when it opens with the words: “In the beginning God created the heavens