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  2. Heraclitus - Wikipedia

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    This world-order , the same for all, no god nor man did create, but it ever was and is and will be: ever-living fire, kindling in measures and being quenched in measures. [bl] This is the oldest extant quote using kosmos, or order, to mean the world. [84] [85] Heraclitus seems to say fire is the one thing eternal in the universe. [86]

  3. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Religion and spirituality

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    Over two thousand pages of anonymous, religious, subconscious ramblings on religion and "God" (whatever that means in the billion planets out there). Xenu: An ancient interstellar dictator who unleashed a genocide which created Christianity and psychiatry and whose story is "calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it".

  4. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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    A small lake in Ethiopia that was created in 2005 after an earthquake. It's not bitter, it's just really, really salty. Giraffe Manor: A hotel in suburban Nairobi where you can eat alongside one of the world's most endangered giraffe subspecies. Hoba Meteorite: The largest intact meteorite in the world. Jacob's Ladder: It's all very downhill ...

  5. List of creation myths - Wikipedia

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    A creation myth (or creation story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which describes 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.

  6. Eternity of the world - Wikipedia

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    God could be an instantaneous and motionless creator, and could have created the world without preceding it in time. To Aquinas, that the world began was an article of faith. [12] The position of the Averroists was condemned by Stephen Tempier in 1277. [citation needed] Giordano Bruno, famously, believed in eternity of the world (and this was ...

  7. List of mythologies - Wikipedia

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  8. Creator deity - Wikipedia

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    [28] and nobody can perceive God in totality: "Vision perceives Him not, but He perceives [all] vision; and He is the Subtle, the Acquainted." [29] God in Islam is not only majestic and sovereign, but also a personal God: "And indeed We have created man, and We know what his ownself whispers to him. And We are nearer to him than his jugular ...

  9. Omphalos hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The idea was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that for the world to be "functional", God must have created the Earth with mountains and canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with fully grown hair, fingernails, and navels [2] (ὀμφαλός omphalos is Greek for "navel"), and ...