Tuesday, 22 July 2025

The Dawn of Creation by ChatGPT

Scene: The Dawn of Creation

The void is dark, chaotic, and humming with potential. Elohim stands ready to speak the universe into existence. A divine script is unfurled before Him, but His delivery is… less than precise.

Elohim:
Let there be… litigate!

A courtroom appears in the void, complete with a judge, lawyers, and a jury of confused cherubs.

Elohim (frowning):
No, no, not litigate! Illuminate! Let there be light!

The courtroom dissolves, and a dim, flickering bulb appears instead, casting a pathetic glow.

Elohim (sighing):
Well, it’s a start. Now, let’s separate the waters from the ferments!

A large brewery materialises, barrels of ale bubbling merrily as hops fly through the air.

Elohim (frustrated):
Not ferments—firmament! The sky! The expanse! Divide the waters above from the waters below!

The brewery vanishes, replaced by a thin sheet of paper precariously balanced over a puddle.

Elohim:
This isn’t going as planned… alright, moving on. Let the earth bring forth vegetarians!

Humans pop into existence, holding plates of tofu and kale, looking perplexed.

Elohim:
Vegetables! I meant vegetables! Trees, plants, and shrubs, not people with dietary preferences!

The vegetarians reluctantly transform into shrubbery, waving leafy arms in protest.

Elohim (rubbing His temples):
Alright, focus. Let there be stars in the ferment of the heavens.

A cascade of glitter falls from the sky, coating everything in a sparkly mess.

Elohim (throwing His hands up):
Why is this so difficult?! I’m omnipotent, omniscient, and apparently linguistically challenged!

A helpful angel timidly steps forward, holding a celestial dictionary.

Angel:
Perhaps, my Lord, a touch more enunciation?

Elohim:
I don’t need enunciation—I need this script to stop tripping me up! Fine, we’ll try again. Let the waters bring forth amphibians!

An army of accordions leaps out of the oceans, wheezing loudly in dissonant harmony.

Elohim (on the verge of a divine breakdown):
What is this cacophonous catastrophe?! Amphibians, not accordionists!

Elohim takes a deep breath, summoning all His divine composure.

Elohim:
Alright. Let us create man in our mattress.

A bewildered human emerges, cushioned by a very plush king-sized bed.

Elohim (deflated):
Image. In our image. Of course. It’s fine. This will do. Humans love comfort anyway.

Elohim slumps onto the newly created mattress, surrounded by a flickering bulb, glittery heavens, a puddle with a paper firmament, and a forest of disgruntled shrubbery.

Elohim (muttering):
Six days of this nonsense? I should’ve outsourced.

The angel flips a page in the dictionary and hesitantly pats Elohim on the shoulder.

Angel:
Your ineffability, perhaps a divine proofreader might…

Elohim (snapping):
No proofreading! I’m perfect, even when I’m… not.

And thus, the world was born—a glorious, chaotic, malaprop-laden masterpiece that would keep future theologians scratching their heads for millennia.