How would you give your cosmology lecture 3,500 years ago and make it apply to all generations of humanity - a feat in itself no? Allow me to surmise a suitable answer.
1. First you'd have to nominate which universe you are discussing [w/o using the term universe], and whether that universe was finite or infinite [w/o using those terms], namely, did the heavens and the earth always exist or was there a beginning point? That appears the correct preamble.
2. Next up, I imagine you would have to deal with how the universe was made. My suspicion is you would have to conclude that the universe works via majestic engineering, namely by LAWS. But since the universe never existed once, thus the laws also never existed. Here, you have to say that LAWS occured - and the universe took form from the formless. How else!?
How far am I from the first cosmological recording?
3. Next, as pivotal cosmological examples, what would you nominate as the first product which emerged from those laws? How about Light as the primordial force product?
And when you get to the stars, if you said they were inumerable and incalcuable, as the grains of sands, it would not be a bad description or vary from today's science - what do you think? Or feel free to nominate a better ancient introduction of what became known as COSMOLOGY?
Hows about this way
Ok moses let me tell you how i made this universe.
Day 1 i snapped my fingers and all the energy and matter and space where made
Then i waited a few billion years for all the matter to condense in to stars and planets
Roughly 4.5 billion years ago this little planet formed orbiting this little a billion years later i made the first life on this planet it was to small for you to see with your naked eye then i waited and life grew and diversified every generation was a bit different like you are a bit different from your mother and father. Then finally a few hundred thousand years ago the first intelligent life formed your ancestors and i guided them a bit trying to teach them right from wrong ....
Was that too hard to tell that he had to lie to moses and tell him well genesis ???