Job
Perhaps the first one to consider is the testimony of Job as mentioned in chapter 12 of the book bearing his name. "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath WROUGHT this?" Job 12:7-9.
It is well to remember that Job lived within the time frame of the book of Genesis, sometime after the flood of Noah's day. In this discourse of Job, he states that it was common knowledge that the earth itself, and the various forms of life on it, were the result of the power of God acting in creation.
Now we know from the first chapter of Romans that man polluted this fundamental truth, and began to supplant God and to worship the creature more than the Creator. And then that chapter goes on to show the degradation of man as a result of not wanting to retain God in his knowledge.
In our day, creation truths have largely been replaced by the theories of evolution, under the influence of most of the institutions of learning. In Job's day, however, creation under the hand of God was commonly accepted.
