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  2. Biblical astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Biblical Astronomy broadly encompasses the views expressed within the Biblical texts concerning the Earth's placement in the cosmos, the recognition of celestial bodies such as stars and planets, and the associated belief systems. The scriptural sources, particularly the poetic passages, offer limited and often enigmatic references to these ...

  3. Young Earth creationism - Wikipedia

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    The scientific community generally regards claims that YEC has a scientific basis to be religiously motivated pseudoscience, because young Earth creationists only look for evidence to support their preexisting belief that the Bible is a literal description of the development of the universe.

  4. Biblical cosmology - Wikipedia

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    God creating the cosmos (Bible moralisée, French, 13th century)Biblical cosmology is the account of the universe and its laws in the Bible. [1] [2] The Bible was formed over many centuries, involving many authors, and reflects shifting patterns of religious belief; consequently, its cosmology is not always consistent.

  5. Allegorical interpretations of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    Creationism. Allegorical interpretations of Genesis are readings of the biblical Book of Genesis that treat elements of the narrative as symbols or types, rather than viewing them literally as recording historical events. Either way, Judaism and most sects of Christianity treat Genesis as canonical scripture, and believers generally regard it ...

  6. Dating creation - Wikipedia

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    Creation of the Earth. Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) Dating creation is the attempt to provide an estimate of the age of Earth or the age of the universe as understood through the creation myths of various religious traditions. Various traditional beliefs hold that the Earth, or the entire universe, was brought into being in a grand creation ...

  7. Ussher chronology - Wikipedia

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    Ussher chronology. The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from a literal reading of the Old Testament by James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. The chronology is sometimes associated with young Earth creationism, which holds that the universe was created only a few ...

  8. List of creation myths - Wikipedia

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    Fon creation myth. Kaang creation myth (Bushmen) Kintu myth (Bugandan) Mandé creation myth. Mbombo (Kuba, Bakuba or Bushongo/Boshongo) Ngai (Kamba, Kikuyu and Maasai ) Serer creation myth (cosmogony of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania) Unkulunkulu (Zulu) Yoruba creation.

  9. Creation science - Wikipedia

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    Creation science is based largely upon chapters 1–11 of the Book of Genesis. These describe how God calls the world into existence through the power of speech ("And God said, Let there be light," etc.) in six days, calls all the animals and plants into existence, and molds the first man from clay and the first woman from a rib taken from the man's side; a worldwide flood destroys all life ...