Creation is not technically the beginning of anything. It is merely the ever existing forces assuming temporary patterns. These patterns remain for a certain time and then dissolve again. The term for this dissolution is either disintegration or decay, but neither disintegration nor decay signifies the end of anything. It is merely the breaking up of the pattern of elements which are in themselves immortal.
Life is an endless unfoldment to the real.
It is consciousness growing up through experience, with its beginning in the unmeasurable past, and its ultimates in the immeasurable future.