The Creation of the World

This version of the birth of our world is just like every other version I have ever heard. The world was a dark inhabitable place, but then a god came and decides how everything should be arranged. What amazes me of this version is the science involved in the story. They even refer to some elements that make part of the periodic table. He mentions something about the heavier elements that sink to the center of the world (this would be iron and silicon, which are what make up the Earth's core. The water stays in the middle holding the Earth together, while fire and air, the lightest of the composers of Earth, go to the heavens with the god (water in the oceans and air in the sky). He also mentions that the center may not be dwelt in because it's too hot, the upper layers aren't habitable either because of the cold and snow, but the center could be lived on because god gave it a temperate climate. Indeed, it was a very scientific review of the creation of the Earth (even if it was written so long ago). The rest is very similar to the other versions. The god forms the shape of the surface (the mountains, the forests, the valleys the rivers and the lakes) and then leaves everything perfect, just as we see it now.

Again, I think Fantasia can make the scene of the inhabitable beginning very vivid (obviously, it skips the part of the god making things better and goes directly to the scientific version of the beginning of life in the next part of the video).