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Definition: Creation from Collins English Dictionary

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1 the Creation God's act of bringing the universe into being

2 the universe as thus brought into being by God


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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In Judaism and Christianity, God's creation of the universe. It is described in Genesis 1 and 2, the first book of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Genesis was once regarded as literally true, and many Orthodox Jews and fundamentalist Christians ( creationists ) continue to hold this interpretation. Others see contradictions in the story and regard it as symbolic myth, written to stress belief that the universe was made through God's will, rather than how he actually made it. Genesis 1:28 and 2:15 state the special relationship humans are to have with God, as Adam and Eve , the first humans, are given stewardship over God's creation. There are also many attempts at explaining the creation of the world in the Hindu tradition. Hindu creation myths include narratives telling of the world stemming from a breaking egg, to a creator constructing the world from timber. The account of the Creation in Genesis describes how God made the universe and everything in it over six days, and then…
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From Book of Bible Quotations
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful…
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From Brewer's Curious Titles
The biblical creation of the world, as recounted in Genesis, has inspired a number of composers and writers. The oratorio The Creation (German title: Die Schöpfung ) by Haydn (1732-1809), first performed in 1798, has a text by Baron van Swieten consisting of translations from Genesis and Milton's…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
or creation science, belief in the biblical account of the creation of the world as described in Genesis , a characteristic especially of fundamentalist Protestantism (see fundamentalism ). Advocates of creationism have campaigned to have it taught in U.S. public schools along with the theory of…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
Proclaimed in the first article of the Nicene Creed , the divine creation of the world is an axiom of all Christian faith . Although it derives from Judaism and is shared in part with Islam, the Church’s doctrine of creation also reflects distinctively Christological themes. In recent times, the…
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From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Professor Emeritus of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology The proper place for the study of religious beliefs is in a church or temple, at home, or in a course on comparative religions, but not in a biology class. There is no place in our world for an ideology that seeks to close minds, force…
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From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
American electrical engineer and physicist With all our wide vision we may be looking at only a small part of a grand creation. Our universe with its billions of galaxies may be only one among many. Science Is Not Enough Chapter IX (p. 168 ) William Morrow & Company, Inc. New York New York USA . …
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
Although impossible to document quantitatively, the overwhelming majority of Americans rejected evolution until well into the twentieth century. They especially damned its Darwinian version, not only for its scientific shortcomings but also for its materialistic implications, its incompatibility…
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From Encyclopedia of American Religious History
For more than a century, the teaching of evolution has been the battleground for a bitter conflict between science and religion in the United States. The creationist, or creation science, movement regards the theory of biological evolution, popularized in the mid-19th century by Charles Darwin, as…
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From Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained
The belief that the universe and everything in it were created directly by a supreme being or deity. The term is most often used of the belief held by some Christians that creation occurred literally as described in the Old Testament book of Genesis, a belief which is in direct conflict with the…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
An attempt to use scientific knowledge to support the creationist worldview, in which the creation of the universe by God as recorded in the biblical book of genesis is held to be the literal truth. Originally known as ‘scientific creationism’, creation science emerged in the USA as an organized…
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