Reference

Genesis 1:21

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

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And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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Creation as Good and Valuable
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Creation as Good and Valuable

The verse primarily describes the act of creation and classification of creatures, and while it states God "saw that it was good," this could be interpreted as a statement of functional completion or satisfaction with the creative process rather than an inherent, independent value of the created things themselves.