The opening words of the Genesis creation narrative ( Genesis 1: 1-26 ) sum up the authors ' view of how the cosmos originated: " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth "; Yahweh, the god of Israel, was solely responsible for creation and had no rivals.

Georges Lemaitre proposed in 1927 that the cosmos originated from what he called the primeval atom.

Hesiod's chaos has often been interpreted as a moving, formless mass from which the cosmos and the gods originated, but Eric Voegelin sees it instead as creatio ex nihilo, much as in the Book of Genesis.

As Vector Prime then synchronised his map of the keys ’ locations to the current arrangement of the cosmos, he was approached by the evil Megatron – unfortunately, Vector Prime ’ s nature as a Transformer who originated from an era before the division of the race into Autobots and Decepticons ( coupled with his diminished memory of the events he had seen across the multiverse due to his advanced age, as specifically noted in his Fun Publications bio ) and Megatron's own smooth charisma led to him handing the map over the Decepticon leader, realising his mistake too late.

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965 lent strong support to the Big Bang model, and since the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Cosmic Background Explorer in the early 1990s, few cosmologists have seriously proposed other theories of the origin and evolution of the cosmos.

Fire was one of many archai proposed by the Pre-socratics, most of whom sought to reduce the cosmos, or its creation, by a single substance.

Empedocles of Acragas proposed four archai by which to understand the cosmos: fire, air, water, and earth.

The concept of " Cosmic Christology ", first elaborated by Saint Paul, focuses on how the arrival of Jesus as the Son of God forever changed the nature of the cosmos.

Consilience has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process, a vision at odds with mystical views in many cultures that surrounded the Hellenes.

The dyad is energeia emanated by the one that is then the work, process or activity called nous, Demiurge, mind, consciousness that organizes the indeterminate vitality into the experience called the material world, universe, cosmos.

" Thus in the example above, Hecuba presents herself as a sophisticated intellectual describing a rationalized cosmos yet the speech is ill-matched to her audience, Menelaus ( a type of the unsophisticated listener ), and soon it is found not to suit the cosmos either ( her infant grandson is brutally murdered by the victorious Greeks ).

The Egyptians sought to maintain Ma ' at in the cosmos by sustaining the gods through offerings and by performing rituals which staved off disorder and perpetuated the cycles of nature.

When envisioning the shape of the cosmos, the Egyptians saw the earth as a flat expanse of land, personified by the god Geb, over which arched the sky goddess Nut.

In Egyptian belief, this cosmos was inhabited by three types of sentient beings.

This view was elaborated in traditional Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology, which depicts the cosmos as a vast, flat oceanic disk ( of the magnitude of a small planetary system ), bounded by mountains, in which the continents are set as small islands.

In addition to seeing it as the most fundamental of the four elements and the one that is quantified and determines the quantity ( logos ) of the other three, he presents fire as the cosmos, which was not made by any of the gods or men, but " was and is and ever shall be ever-living fire.

Anaxagoras ( 480 BC ) was known as " Nous " (" Mind ") because he taught that " all things " were created by Mind, that Mind held the cosmos together and gave human beings a connection to the cosmos or a pathway to the divine.

The chemist Ernest Lester Smith wrote a book Intelligence Came First ( 1975 ) in which he claimed that consciousness is a fact of nature and that the cosmos is grounded in and pervaded by mind and intelligence.

Taking a different view from other modern scholars, Ulansey argues that the Mithraic mysteries began in the Greco-Roman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a discovery that amounted to discovering that the entire cosmos was moving in a hitherto unknown way.

' uncuttable '), but he gives weight to characterize atoms while for Leucippus they are characterized by a " figure ", an " order " and a " position " in the cosmos.

For Steiner, the cosmos is permeated and continually transformed by the creative activity of non-physical processes and spiritual beings.

Page ii contains quotations by William Whewell and Francis Bacon on the theology of natural laws, harmonising science and religion in accordance with Isaac Newton's belief in a rational God who established a law-abiding cosmos.

In the 2011 Marvel Studios superhero film Thor, the Asgardian warrior Thor explains that the Nine Realms of the Asgardian cosmos are linked by Yggdrasil, the Norse mythological Tree of Life, which is here interpreted as a nebula in space connecting the planets in an orbit.

Dumézil stated that he was aligned with both vertical space, due to his placement of his foot on the wolf's lower jaw and his hand on the wolf's upper jaw, and horizontal space, due to his wide step and strong shoe, and that, by killing the wolf, Víðarr keeps the wolf from destroying the cosmos, and the cosmos can thereafter be restored after the destruction resulting from Ragnarök.

Pythagoras is said to have been the first philosopher to apply the term cosmos to the Universe, perhaps referring to the starry firmament.

Perhaps starting with Pythagoras or Heraclitus, the cosmos is even said to have reason.

Pythagoras is said to have been a disciple of Anaximander and to have imbibed the cosmological concerns of the Ionians, including the idea that the cosmos is constructed of spheres, the importance of the infinite, and that air or aether is the arche of everything.

What is noteworthy about this large group of teen-agers is that, although their attitudes hardly differentiate them from their gentile counterparts, they actually lead their lives in a vast self-enclosed Jewish cosmos with relatively little contact with the non-Jewish world.

They are commonly, although not always, considered cosmogonical myths — that is they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness.

These myths associate chaos with evil and oblivion, in contrast to " order " ( cosmos ) which is the good.

As important as dark matter is thought to be in the cosmos, direct evidence of its existence and a concrete understanding of its nature have remained elusive.

* The natural world or cosmos is in a state of constant motion:

His definition is based on the presence in the esoteric currents of four essential characteristics: a theory of correspondences between all parts of the invisible and the visible cosmos, the conviction that nature is a living entity owing to a divine presence or life-force, the need for mediating elements ( such as symbols, rituals, angels, visions ) in order to access spiritual knowledge, and, fourthly, an experience of personal and spiritual transmutation when arriving at this knowledge.

But there is still the problem of " who will keep the cosmos working ".

Enlil tells Ninshubur he is much too busy running the cosmos.

The most accepted theory of how these structures came to be is that all the large-scale structure of the cosmos we observe today was formed as a consequence of the growth of the primordial fluctuations, which are small changes in the density of the universe in a confined region.

While the general concept of a " Spirit " that permeates the cosmos is a general feature of most religions ( e. g. Brahman in Hinduism and Tao in Taoism and Great Spirit among Indigenous peoples of the Americas ), the term Holy Spirit specifically refers to the beliefs held in the Abrahamic religions.

In brief, God is the Power in the cosmos that gives human life the direction that enables the human being to reflect the image of God.

Originally operating from Santiago, in 2000 this autonomous institute moved South of Chile, Valdivia, in the 40S parallel, where the search has expanded and deepened in the areas of life, our planet and the cosmos.

Not only was there an inherent connection between the macrocosm ( cosmos ) and microcosm ( humans ), but they mutually influenced each other in a reciprocal and parallel manner.

In physical cosmology, the term cosmos is often used in a technical way, referring to a particular space-time continuum within the ( postulated ) multiverse.

The original Greek term παράδειγμα ( paradeigma ) was used in Greek texts such as Plato's Timaeus ( 28A ) as the model or the pattern that the Demiurge ( god ) used to create the cosmos.

The Buddhist term anatta ( Pāli ) or anātman ( Sanskrit ) is used in the sutras both as a noun and as a predicative adjective to denote that phenomena are not, or are without, a Self, to describe any and all composite, consubstantial, phenomenal and temporal things, from the macrocosmic to microcosmic, be it matter pertaining to the physical body or the cosmos at large, as well as any and all mental machinations, which are impermanent.

He accordingly avoids the term cosmos, which is associated with merely physical existence.

Primum movens ( Latin ), usually referred to as the Prime mover or first cause in English, is a term used in the philosophy of Aristotle, in the theological cosmological argument for the existence of God, and in cosmogony, the source of the cosmos or " all-being ".