For one thing, he takes that position to be committed to a temporal beginning of the world, a bringing the world into existence at some moment of time. (religion-online.org)
Symptomatic of this thinking was the observation of Emilio Castro at the World Mission Conference in Bangkok on «Salvation Today» (1973): «We are at the end of a missionary era; we are at the very beginning of world mission.» (religion-online.org)
Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902) (newscientist.com)