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The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God. The chain begins with God and descends through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals. [1][2][3] The great chain of being (from Latin scala naturae 'ladder of being') is a concept derived from Plato ...
Ngewo is a sky god, responsible for creating the universe, and is in charge of determining earth’s natural phenomena. [1][2] He is popularly depicted as a distant deity, who does not concern himself with the day-to-day goings of his worshippers. [2][3][4] However, in certain myths, Ngewo tends to punish those who forget to pray to him as well ...
Progressive creationism is the religious belief that God created new forms of life gradually over a period of hundreds of millions of years. As a form of old Earth creationism, it accepts mainstream geological and cosmological estimates for the age of the Earth, some tenets of biology such as microevolution as well as archaeology to make its ...
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
A 2009 poll by Harris Interactive found that 39 per cent of Americans agreed with the statement that "God created the universe, the earth, the sun, moon, stars, plants, animals, and the first two people within the past 10,000 years", yet only 18 per cent of the Americans polled agreed with the statement "The earth is less than 10,000 years old ...
Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution), alternatively called evolutionary creationism, is a view that God acts and creates through laws of nature. Here, God is taken as the primary cause while natural causes are secondary, asserting that the concept of God and religious beliefs are compatible with the ...
Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation. [1] [2] In its broadest sense, creationism includes a continuum of religious views, [3] [4] which vary in their acceptance or rejection of scientific explanations such as evolution that describe the origin and development of natural ...
Atum (/ɑ.tum/, Egyptian: jtm (w) or tm (w), reconstructed [jaˈtaːmuw]; Coptic ⲁⲧⲟⲩⲙ Atoum), [3][4] sometimes rendered as Atem or Tem, is the primordial God in Egyptian mythology from whom all else arose. He created himself and is the father of Shu and Tefnut, the divine couple, who are the ancestors of the other Egyptian deities.