Creation

Yes, Aristotle believed in the existence of a divine being as an eternal and unchanging mover that set the universe in motion. However, he did not believe in a personal God who created the universe in the same way as religious traditions do.

Let us turn to Genesis ch.1v 6,7 and 8. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

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In the creation story, the light created on day 1 is often understood to signify the separation of light from darkness, representing the dawning of a new beginning and the order that will be established in the universe. It sets the stage for the subsequent days of creation and symbolizes the emergence of life and vitality.

The creation story in Luzon, Philippines, involves the supreme deity Gugurang creating the earth, sea, and sky. Gugurang tasked dormants with shaping the land, and then created the first man and woman - Malakas and Maganda. They lived peacefully until a serpent caused strife between them.

Creationists typically believe that the universe, Earth, and all living things were created by a supreme being, often the God of the Christian Bible, as described in Genesis. They may reject the theory of evolution and instead believe that the diversity of life on Earth can be explained by special creation events. Creationists often interpret scientific evidence, such as the fossil record, in ways that support their beliefs about the origins of life.

In the Inca creation myth, the sun was considered the father of the first Inca emperor, Manco Capac, and his siblings. It was believed that the sun god, Inti, chose them to lead and establish the Inca empire. Inti was considered a benevolent deity, providing warmth, light, and sustenance to the people.

Creationism is a belief that life, the Earth, and the universe originated from specific acts of divine creation. It is a religious belief and is not scientifically supported as an explanation for the origins of life. The scientific consensus is that life on Earth has evolved through natural processes over billions of years.

In the Genesis creation story, light was created on the first day by God, even before the sun and moon were created on the fourth day. This light is often interpreted as the divine presence or a supernatural light that illuminated the world before the physical luminaries.

Creation of the universe begins with the 'Big Bang', some 11 billion years ago. Stars formed and grew old, and new stars formed, but for billions of years there was no earth. In the neighbourhood of our sun, a giant star exploded as a supernova, an event that scientists see occasionally. A very small part of the material given off by this explosion was captured as an accretion disc in orbit around our sun.

This disc broke up into gaseous balls, one of which was to become our earth. It cooled until the hot gases condensed into a rocky sphere orbiting the sun. A billion years later, primitive life forms began to appear.

Both the Big Bang theory and the Hindu creation story describe the origin of the universe and all living beings. They both suggest that everything began from a single point and expanded to form the vastness we see today. Additionally, both narratives involve the concept of cycles of creation and destruction.

G-D did not need to take a rest. HE took a rest, because people need to rest up and sleep after working hard. To quote Christ Jesus: "Man was not created for the Sabbath, the Sabbath was created for Man." G-D rested because people need to rest up and therefore as a lesson to humans (created on the 6th day), take a rest and get some sleep after working hard.

In the Western world, Special Creation was the dominant theory of the origin of the world and life in it from the sixteenth century until the nineteenth century when it was supplanted by scientific theories, particularly the Theory of Evolution.
Special Creation was given special impetus in the 1880s in an attempted response to the Theory of Evolution. Some Creationists asserted that the the universe and all life in it were created by God in a very short space of time, a few thousand years ago, just as they believed that Genesis describes creation. They say that Genesis is an accurate historical account of creation of the universe over the course of six twenty-four hour days.
The Roman Catholic Church sees "special creation" somewhat differently. The Pontifical Biblical Commission issued a decree ratified by Pope Pius X on June 30, 1909 that "special creation" only applied to man, not to the other species. In 2004, the International Theological Commission, under the presidency of Cardinal Ratzinger, published a paper in which it accepted the scientific explanation of the history of the universe, commencing in the Big Bang about 15 billion years ago, and the evolution of all life on earth, including humans, from the micro organisms commencing about 4 billion years ago. In modern Catholic teaching, the doctrine of "special creation" refers only to the origin of the human soul.

Atheistic creationism is the view held by a number of idealist and Buddhist philosophers especially in the 19th century and the early 20th century.

Basically every object and thing in the universe even down to the smallest atom is a mental creation, created out of mind. Minds are indeed the creators of the universe. But unlike George Berkeleys subjective idealism which was theistic for atheistic creationism there is no divine mind, there is no God. All creations were created from human minds or other forms of life.

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, time is intertwined with space in a four-dimensional spacetime. Time does not have a distinct beginning as it is part of this interconnected continuum. This means that asking when time began may not have a meaningful answer within this framework.

So many have looked at Creation, but come up with so many, and contradictory, answers, that there must be a danger in hearing what one wants to hear, and seeing what one wants to see. Perhaps Creation is so rich and glorious that each of us only sees a small part. The solution might be, as with one's fellow humans, to approach it with an open mind and a loving heart, and perhaps the answer that fills your needs will present itself to you.

Creationism is considered a Pseudoscience because it is impossible to prove that a divine being created a world, because we cannot study divine beings. Science only deals with things that can be observed and reported, and is based on facts, not beliefs.

Evolution does not concern the origin of the universe. Evolution is a theory concerning the origin of species--diverse biological organisms--via mechanisms of inheritance with modification.

The origin of the universe is best dealt with by the Big Bang theory.

According to many creation myths, the sky and sea were formed when a primordial deity or force separated the waters of chaos to create distinct realms. In some cultures, these elements were personified as gods or goddesses responsible for their creation and maintenance. The sky and sea often represent fundamental aspects of the cosmos and are deeply intertwined in many belief systems.

When the world first began there was no land, but only the sea and the sky, and between them was a kite (a bird something like a hawk). One day the bird which had nowhere to light grew tired of flying about, so she stirred up the sea until it threw its waters against the sky. The sky, in order to restrain the sea, showered upon it many islands until it could no longer rise, but ran back and forth. Then the sky ordered the kite to light on one of the islands to build her nest, and to leave the sea and the sky in peace. Now at this time the land breeze and the sea breeze were married, and they had a child which was a bamboo. One day when this bamboo was floating about on the water, it struck the feet of the kite which was on the beach. The bird, angry that anything should strike it, pecked at the bamboo, and out of one section came a man and from the other a woman. Then the earthquake called on all the birds and fish to see what should be done with these two, and it was decided that they should marry. Many children were born to the couple, and from them came all the different races of people. After a while the parents grew very tired of having so many idle and useless children around, and they wished to be rid of them, but they knew of no place to send them to. Time went on and the children became so numerous that the parents enjoyed no peace. One day, in desperation, the father seized a stick and began beating them on all sides. This so frightened the children that they flee in different directions, seeking hidden rooms in the house -- some concealed themselves in the walls, some ran outside, while others hid in the fireplace, and several fled to the sea. Now it happened that those who went into the hidden rooms of the house later became the chiefs of the islands; and those who concealed themselves in the walls became slaves. Those who ran outside were free men; and those who hid in the fireplace became Negroes; while those who fled to the sea were gone many years, and when their children came back they were the white people.