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Topic·Creation of the world✕clear

Scripture · Religious literature

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible.

Colossians 1:16

62

★ 1.3

Scripture · Religious literature

Through him all things were made.

John 1:3

90

★ 1.3

When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

1794

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Genesis 1:16

1405 BC

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Have not the unbelievers then beheld that the heavens and the earth were a mass all sewn up, and then We unstitched them and of water fashioned every living thing? Will they not believe?

The Quran, The Koran, 21:30 · 632

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Genesis 1:3

1405 BC

★ 2.3

Philosophical literature

Before heaven and earth had taken form all was vague and amorphous. Therefore it was called the Great Beginning. The Great Beginning produced emptines and emptiness produced the universe... The combined essences of heaven and earth became the yin and yang, the concentrated essences of the yin and yang became the four seasons, and the scattered essences of the four seasons became the myriad creatures of the world.

Huainanzi

139 BC

★ 3.5

Radio broadcast · Novel · Science fiction

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe · 1978

★ 3.5

Scripture · Religious literature

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:4 · 500 BC

★ 3.6

Scripture · Religious literature

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1

1405 BC

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:5

1405 BC

★ 3.8

Scientific literature

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.

Principia · 1713

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Revelation 4:11

96

★ 4.4

Scripture · Religious literature

And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21

1405 BC

★ 5.3

Treatise · Scientific literature

God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them.

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light · 1704

★ 5.4