Since the beginning ...

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

We've learned a bit since those words were given to us.

It all began 13.8 billion years ago.  The first visible light appeared across the expanding universe about 375 thousand years after the 'Big Bang'.  Discovered in the 1960's and identified as the 'cosmic microwave background', it has subsequently been verified by multiple disciplines.  Then, 400 million years later, the first stars were formed. 

9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.  11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. 

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/bubbles-with-titanium-trigger-titanic-explosions.html

In the nuclear fusion at their core, those first stars created the heavier elements we know today.  They lived quickly, and in supernovae, they began distributing the basic elements that make up the universe today.  

The creation/destruction cycle of star formation led to billions of stars in each of trillions of galaxies across the visible universe.  After 9.1 billion years, our sun was born in the outer arm of one typical galaxy.  

Over hundreds of millions of years, our solar system evolved planets with settled orbits.  The earth spawned a moon, formed an atmosphere, and changed from a molten ball to a watery world.  The first single-cell organisms appeared around 3.5 billion years ago.

24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”  27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”  29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. 

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-gazes-at-a-galactic-menagerie
Each of these galaxies has hundreds of billions of stars and planets.  We are apparently not the centerpiece.

After around three billion years and several mass-extinction events in which most of the life on earth was wiped out, mammals became the dominant life forms.  Humans appeared around two million years ago, and literate civilization has existed for only a few thousand years.

Within that context of what we now know, what might our Father have been telling us in those earliest revelations He offered?

Among the trillions of known galaxies, here we are in the suburbs of the Milky Way, circling one of its hundreds of billions of stars, and we've been here for perhaps 0.3 seconds since those first 'six days' of creation.  

When you consider it all, you have to wonder, what is mankind in His view?  And, are we following His plan or our own?

In Psalm 8, David had the same question.  I think he understood it better.

One concluding thought:  The narrative provided in Genesis 1 & 2 should perhaps be understood as an explanation in terms the hearers could grasp.  It relies on what was observable to them and required of them.  God was revealing to them what they needed to know about Him, what they needed to know about themselves, and about living in the world He had given them.  I think He expects us to be similarly informed today, and we're left with the question, are we following the path He offered us?