I heard Japan's islands were created from some dudes sword. Somehow it dripped seven drops of water which created the islands. I thought I needed another puff.
You'll note that the biblical account of creation was also included in those selected myths I listed.
I kept the scientific account separate but here it is now....
The universe was most likely created by some kind of big bang approximately 13.5 billion years ago.
The Earth is around 4.5 billion years old, having been born through accretion in the solar nebula and eventually cooling and acquiring an atmosphere.
Life on Earth progresses and evolved from primitive organisms to increasingly complex species through mutation and natural selection.
Hominds branched off from apes around 3 - 5 million years ago with modern man making an appearance around 250,000 years ago.
The evidence for this:
Radiometric dating, Hubble's Law, observations of cosmic background radiation, primordial nucleosynthesis, distribution and morphology of galaxies, theory of general relativity, genetics and phylogenetics, heredity, hybridisation, microevolution, the fossil record, comparative sequence alignment, vestigal and homologous structures, acquired antibiotic and pesticide resistance, geographic distribution and correlation, island biogeography, etc, etc, etc.