At the end of the day, God saw that it was good. Indeed, that is the recurring refrain in the story of creation. For at the end of each day, God saw that it was good.
Modern minds may like to quibble about the science of the creation account in scripture, but no one can dispute the beauty of it. Phase by phase, the beauty unfolds.
When the curtain opens on the mysterious pre-creation scene, it is a frightening blackness. We read of both chaos and emptiness, and all of it in the midst of an enveloping, impenetrable darkness. But then God begins to speak. Light pierces and dispels the darkness. There is order in place of chaos, and the former void is filled with purpose. What had been uninterrupted blackness now brims with color, splendor, and life.
Oh, the life! All shapes and sizes: an…