please discuss the following question in a well-organized essay. Let the essay b

please discuss the following question in a well-organized essay. Let the essay be 4-6 pages, typed, double-spaced, in 12-pt Times New Roman font. Let it be due Thursday, October 5. Please upload it onto bCourses or send it to me in an e-mail attachment either as a Word document or in pdf format.
Question:
Drawing from lecture and readings, discuss genesis. What is the science of genesis? How are worlds created? What principles govern the endeavor? What challenges must be overcome in their creation and preservation? What commonalities do worlds share in this regard? What qualities differentiate one world’s genesis from that of another? How does the science of world genesis differ from philosophical inquiries into the origins of the physical universe or the human species? What explains the controversy over the question of genesis so prevalent in popular media? How might that controversy be resolved?
Reading:
Jorge Luis Borges, “A History of Angels,” in Selected Non-Fictions, Penguin, 2000, pp. 16-19.
“The World and Its Creation: Cosmogony and Cosmology” in Ancient Egyptian Science by Marshall Clagett, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1989.
“The Enuma Elish” in Ancient Near Eastern Texts, James B. Pritchard, ed., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 60-74.
Genesis (1-4), The Oxford Annotated Bible, May and Metzger, eds.
The Huainanzi, John S. Major, et al., transl., New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, pp. 48-49, 109-48.
R. O. Faulkner, “The King and the Star-Religion in the Pyramid Texts,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1966: 153-161.
Douglas Kidd, transl., Aratus: Phaenomena, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 72-157.
G. J. Toomer, Ptolemy’s Almagest, 1998, pp. 35-74, 321-417.
Ebenezer Burgess, “Translation of the Surya-Siddhanta, a Text-book of Hindu Astronomy,” 1858, pp. 319-64.
Sun Xiaochun and Jacob Kistemaker, The Chinese Sky during the Han: Constellations, Stars and Society, Leiden: Brill, 1997, pp. 146-91.
Ranee Katzenstein and Emilie Savage-Smith, The Leiden Aratea: Ancient Constellations in a Medieval Manuscript (Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1988).
Emmy Wellesz, “An Early al-Sufi Manuscript in the Bodleian Library in Oxford: A Study in Islamic Constellation Images,” Ars Orientalis 1959: 1-26.
A. R. Millard, “Cartography in the Ancient Near East,” in History of Cartography, 1987, pp. 107-16.
Strabo, Geography, Book I.
Al-Biruni, The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology, London, 1934, pp. 138-48.
B. Baumann, “The White Old Man: Géluk-Mongolian Canopus Allegory and the Existence of God,” Central Asiatic Journal 62 (2019): 35-68.
“The Theory of Instantaneous Being,” F. Th. Stcherbatsky, Buddhist Logic, Dover, 1962.
Francesca Rochberg, Empiricism in Babylonian Omen Texts and the Classification of Mesopotamian Divination as Science, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 119 (1999): 559-569.
Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, F. E. Robbins, transl., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940, pp. 2-59.
“Introductory Hymn to the Sun-god Re,” The Egyptian Book of the Dead, R. O. Faulkner, transl., San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991.
Isaiah 40-55, The Oxford Annotated Bible, May and Metzger, eds.
“Timaeus” in The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Edith Hamilton, ed., Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 1151-1211.
The Book of Enoch, Matthew Black, ed., Leiden: Brill, 1985, pp. 25-101.
Eileen Gardiner, “Saint Peter’s Apocalypse; Saint Paul’s Apocalypse” Visions of Heaven and Hell before Dante, New York, 1989, pp. 1-46.
Fereydun Vahman, Ardā Wirāz Nāmag: The Iranian ‘Divina Commedia’, Curzon Press, 1989, pp. 191-219.
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic & Copernican, S. Drake, transl., A. Einstein, foreword, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967, pp. vii-xix.