The Norse gods and theistic evolution. (My comments in red.)
1. 0 second to 10-43 second. Only God knows or can know what happened during this period of time. We know only that at least 9 dimensions of space existed as what is called singularity. All of the universe-to-be existed as a point of no volume. Time as we know it was created.
These are referred to as the Nine Worlds that make up the greater world.
2. 10-43 second, also known as Planck time. This is the point at which gravity, one of the four unified forces, became separate from the remaining three forces.
Gravity was represented by the cow Audhumbla, whose milk was matter and the Milky Way, and formed the young Earth. She is also the great Sky Bull of the Mesopotamians, who turns the great sky wheel and makes the world go round.
She is only actually a cow beginning with the age of Taurus (4300 BC - 2150 BC). Before that she can be represented by other great beasts, and later by the Ram (Age of Aries: 2150 BC - 1 AD).
3. 10-36 second. The strong nuclear force (the force that holds the nuclei of atoms together) separated from the other three unified forces.
The remaining forces are referred to as the three roots of the World Tree, Yggdrasil, who are seated in the Well of Urd/Fate/Causality, the Boiling Spring/Creation from chaos, and the well of Mimir/Entropy.
4. 10-36 to 10-32 second. Immediately following and triggered by the separation of the strong nuclear force, the universe expanded rapidly for this brief period of time.
This splits existence into the heat of Muspelheim and the cold of Niflheim, which begin to interact with each other.
5. 10-32 to 10-5 second. The universe is filled with quarks, antiquarks, and electrons. The quarks and antiquarks combine and annihilate each other. Quarks are in excess of antiquarks by a ratio of 1,000,000,001 to 1,000,000,000. The remaining quarks will make up all the matter that exists in the universe.
The separation of Sky, Earth, and water. Earth is called Ymir.
6. 10-12 second. The final two unified forces split from one another. Electromagnetism, which controls the attraction of negatively and positively charged particles, becomes separate from the weak nuclear force, which controls radioactive decay.
Ymir is killed, and the inhabitable world is formed from his remains.
7. 10-5 second. The universe cools to 1,000,000,000,000°K allowing quarks to combine to form protons and neutrons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei.
The blood of Ymir kills most of his children, but enough of them remain for natural phenomena to continue at a more leisurely pace. (The Titans/Giants are stuff like earthquakes, vulcanic eruptions, mountain slides, solar radiation, rain, etc.)
8. 1 second to 3 minutes. The universe continues to cool, allowing protons and neutrons to combine to form the nuclei of future atoms.
And eventually we get the world as we know it.
That took me about 10 minutes to come up with.
Wanna bet that someone can come up with something similar for other cosmological models?
Point being, that it is easy to form a model that gives you the results you want, when you know them in advance.
