As I understand, there are three mainly popular theories about how this
universe came into existence.
1. According to Science, no one designed or created the universe;
it just happened with a ‘Big Bang’ and evolved over a long period of time and
is still expanding. There are some new updates and few other scientific
theories have also been developed lately. Tons of material is available on this
subject on the net so I do not need to go into the details.
2. According to the western religions, namely Judaism, Christianity
and Islam, the universe was designed and created by an all-powerful Almighty
God. Since Christianity and Islam, both draw their main philosophy from
Judaism, their concept of God and the universe comes from Torah, the Holy
Scripture of Judaism, adopted in the Christian Bible as Old Testament.
According to them, the universe was created in six days and the seventh day,
God rested. Therefore, Christians all over the world believe that Sunday, the
seventh day should be kept only for worship and rest. Secondly, earth was the
center of the universe and the sun, moon and stars were created to divide the
day from night and to provide light. Interestingly, earth, sea, grass and the
herb yielding seed and trees yielding fruits, all were created on the third day
and the sun and moon and stars were created on the fourth day; the greater
light to rule the day and the lesser lights to rule the night. Whales and all
other sea creatures and all kinds of birds were created on the fifth day.
"On Sixth day, God said; Let the earth bring forth the
living creatures, cattle and creeping things and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so. And God saw that it was good. And God said; Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and all over
the earth… So God created man in his own image. And God saw everything that he
had made, and, behold, it was good. And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of
them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he
rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed
the seventh day and sanctified it".
(Bible,
Genesis chapter 1)
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