... In the beginning, God saw fit to create and populate the universe with a scattering of divine cats. As time pressed on, bad cat offspring devolved into frogs, lizards, worms, fish, amoebae, and vira (that's plural of virus in Latin according to the rule that the plural of neuter nouns end in a instead of i ... for you non-Latin scholars [heh heh heh], simply viruses :) and eventually crawled into the sea, while good-but-not-divine cat offspring evolved to second in the food chain, humans, the divine cats remaining at the top thereof.

There, now, that should satisfy everyone's enduring questions about the origins of the universe.

This is how my cats see themselves: