Tom was one of the unnamed "sons and daughters" mentioned in Genesis.

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

The genesis of that idea can be traced back to a casual conversation a decade earlier.

They ended the broadcast with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis.

How would it be possible to account for the genesis of structures if we are always already within a structure?