The Gospel of John is a good read. But I don't believe Word=God, and that Word Created the World. There were people before Jesus, there were animals before people, before animals there may have been plants, may not have been. I have not seen any life with my own life before the year 1980 when I was born. But I believe my parents: the '70's, '60's and '50's happened. Jesus lived 2000 years ago, that's very long in a human measurement scale, but very short in the history of the Universe. Besides, we might live in a Multiverse. I may be a bit of a gnostic occultist though, I have to be careful about my own thoughts.