Genesis

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.

And God said, Let there be uncertainty, and it was so.

And God saw the uncertainty, and saw that it was: and God muddled the certainty and uncertainty.

And God called the certainty Truth, and the uncertainty he called Opinion.

And the day concluded.

And God said, Let there be a metaphor in the midst of the narrative, and let it divide the narrative from the narratives.

And God made the metaphor, and divided the narratives which were under the metaphor from the narratives which were above the metaphor: and it was so.

And God called the metaphor Existence. And the day concluded.

And God said, Let the narratives under the Existence be gathered together unto one place, and let the Universe appear: and it was so.

And God called the Opinions fiction; and the gathering together of the Truth called he nonfiction: and God saw that it was.

And God said, Let the Universe bring forth entropy, the entropy yielding entropy after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the Universe: and it was so.

And the the Universe brought forth entropy, the entropy yielding entropy after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the Universe: and it was so.

And the day concluded.

And God said, Let there be Time; and let it be for cycles, and orbits, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

And let it be for ordering of the metaphor to give direction to the Universe: and it was so.

And God made two great Times; one Time to rule the start, and another to rule the finish: he made the middle also.

And God set them in the metaphor to give direction to the Universe,

And to rule over the start and the finish, and to divide the ends from the middle: and God saw that it was.

And the day concluded.

And God said, Let there be a balance in the Universe, and let every action reflect its cost, for in the vastness of the Universe, resources are finite and every choice bears a consequence.

So God created scarcity. It was the force that made the waters divide and the lands separate, the force that caused the creatures to seek and to strive.

And God saw the beings of the Universe, each bound by need and desire, each driven to survive and to thrive, each action weighed against the silent pull of scarcity.

And God saw that it was, and it was so.

And the day concluded.

And God said, Let us create beings in our image, beings that reflect our essence and have the potential to ponder their place in the Universe.

So God created humankind, and they were a mirror of the divine, capable of thought, feeling, and doubting the weight of their choices.

And God acknowledged them, saying, “Make what you will of the Universe, but remember, everything has a cost.”

Thus the Universe was finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God died; and I think you pretty much know the rest from here.