It's interesting to seek theological sources for the religious theories or myths about the creation of the world (or universe).
When I studied Bible at school we studied it from a secular-historical point of view, and so my teacher taught the stories of Genesis from a pragmatic point of view.
The Jewish story of world creation, described in the Book of Genesis, which later was borrowed by Christianity and Islam and accepted by them, was very revolutionary in the time it was written, because it had aspects not present in any other religion at the time:
1. The existence of only one, abstract God (or divine being).
2. The elevation of the one God above anything in the world. Nature and great animals have been created by God, and so, forces of nature & great animals shall not be referred to as gods.
This apparently had great importance in the Jewish religion, as the book claims:
001:021 And God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that
it was good.
Some ancient religions believed that whales and gators are Gods (or divine beings), and so the Bible mentions that God created them, therefore they are nothing more than animals.
3. God created humans in His image. "In his image" means, not physically, as God has no form, but mentally- he gave him the ability to think. Humans were given dominion over the land, and so they are free, and not slaves of a god.
It's easy to understand how revolutionary this theory was when compared to
Enuma Elis, the Babylonian myth of world creation. The Babylonian believed that the world was created as a result of a war between gods, and the earth and skies were created by the god Marduk from the corpse of Tiamat, a god that he has killed. Later he uses the blood of her husband to create humans, and makes them his servants.