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   “WHO can say whence it all came, and how creation happened?” You find   
   that question in the poem “The Song of Creation.” Composed in Sanskrit   
   over 3,000 years ago, it is part of the Rig-Veda, a Hindu holy book. The   
   poet doubted that even the many Hindu gods could know “how creation   
   happened” because “the gods themselves are later than creation.”—Italics   
   ours.   
      
   Writings from Babylon and Egypt offer similar myths about the birth of   
   their gods in a universe that already existed. A key point, however, is   
   that those myths could not say where the original universe came from.   
   You will find, though, that one creation record is different. This   
   particular record, the Bible, opens with the words: “In the beginning   
   God created the heavens and the earth.”—Genesis 1:1.   
      
   Moses wrote that simple, dramatic statement some 3,500 years ago. It   
   focuses on a Creator, God, who transcends the material universe because   
   he made it and hence existed before it was. The same book teaches that   
   “God is a Spirit,” which means he exists in a form that our eyes cannot   
   see. (John 4:24) Such an existence is perhaps more conceivable today,   
   since scientists have described powerful neutron stars and black holes   
   in space—invisible objects that are detectable by the effects they produce.   
      
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