The grammar construes material processes as
- either creative or transformative, and
- either doing (transitive) or happening (intransitive).
Models of the creation of the universe construe it as either a doing or happening.
Mythological models construe the creation as 'other-engendered': a doing in which the universe is the Goal/Medium of the process and a supernatural being is the Actor/Agent.
God
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created
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the Universe
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Actor
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Process: material: creative
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Goal
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Agent
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Medium
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Scientific models construe the creation as 'self-engendered': a happening in which the universe is the Actor/Medium of a process that has neither Goal nor Agent.
the Universe
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emerged
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Actor
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Process: material: creative
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Medium
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