creation of the light , the separation of the day and night , the placement of the stars and moon and sun by which the times and seasons were begun , the spreading of the firmament above the earth , to separate the waters of the atmosphere and primal oceans , and the calling forth of habitable land amidst the boundless deeps , and finally the populating of the land and sea with vegetation and with beasts who creep upon the land , and fish who swim the deep -- all this was just to while his time away as ape cubs model mudpies in their play .