Chapter 2 Genesis and science 2.1 Order in the natural world ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’; So read the American astronauts—Anders, Lovell and Borman—as they gazed in awe at the earth from their orbit round the moon on Christmas Eve, 1968. For them, there was a deep conviction that what they saw then could only be explained by creation. Many would not only agree but also argue further, that the careful balancing of all the ingredients necessary for life could not have arrived