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Creatio ex nihilo (Latin for "creation out of nothing") is the doctrine that matter is not eternal but had to be created by some divine creative act. [1] It is a theistic answer to the question of how the universe came to exist.
Reconsidering Creation Ex Nihilo in Genesis 1. Penn State University Press. De Almeida, Isabel Gomes (2021). "The Mesopotamian primordial ocean(s): Changes and continuities on the creative agency of the primeval aquatic deities (3rd and 2nd millennia BC)". In Monteiro, Maria do Rosário; Kong, Mário S. Ming (eds.). Tradition and Innovation.
Gap creationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or the Gap Theory) is a form of old Earth creationism that posits that the six-yom creation period, as described in the Book of Genesis, involved six literal 24-hour days, but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and the ...
A creation myth (or creation story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which attempts to describe the earliest beginnings of the present world. Creation myths are the most common form of myth, usually developing first in oral traditions , and are found throughout human culture.
If that were so, the doctrine of annihilation would be true. But if I am right, I might with boldness proclaim from the house tops that God never did have power to create the spirit of man at all. God himself could not create himself. Intelligence exists upon a self-existent principle; it is a spirit from age to age, and there is no creation ...
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (2006), a book by biologist Edward O. Wilson "The Creation" (1927), a poem by James Weldon Johnson, published in God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse; La création du monde, a 1923 ballet by Darius Milhaud; Creation, an unreleased video game developed by Bullfrog Productions
Christianity affirms the creation by God since its early time in the Apostles' Creed ("I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.", 1st century CE), that is symmetrical to the Nicene Creed (4th century CE). Nowadays, theologians debate whether the Bible itself teaches if this creation by God is a creation ex nihilo.
The Discovery Institute rejects the term creationism, which it defines narrowly as meaning young earth creationism, [93] though in court intelligent design was found to be creationism. [ 94 ] In October 1999 the Michael Polanyi Center was founded in the science faculty of Baylor University , a Baptist college, to study intelligent design.