I am going to have to do a serious literature search on this one but, just to go on with, how about the following excerpt from Lyall Watson's great book "The Water Planet" ? This seems to me to be as believable a version of the Creation Story as I have ever read, all the more remarkable for it's combination of brevity, literary elegance, and scientific accuracy:

" In the beginning, there was no water. Earth was too hot to let it happen. But as the molten core of the planet slowly settled, producing a viscous mantle and a thin outer crust, it covered itself in a dense cloud of methane, ammonia, and carbon monoxide. In time, this poisonous early envelope boiled off into space and a new atmosphere began to develop - one dominated by hydrogen and carbon dioxide and, eventually, by water vapour.

Then it rained.

At first the water steamed and swirled high above the heated surface, but eventually the crust cooled sufficiently to allow vapour to condense and, for millions of years, through the longest darkest night of our world's existence, the rains came down."

There is more, but if you are a water lover as I am you will have to look for it yourself. Regrettably the book is now out of print, but it is well worth the effort of looking for a used copy.

Crown Publishers, N.Y. 1988. ISBN 0-517-56504-8