divine creation
God's original work
Divine creation is the belief that the universe and living things were brought into existence by a god or gods, rather than arising through natural processes alone.
The term appears most often in religious contexts and debates over evolution: The school board argued for teaching divine creation alongside natural selection.
It encompasses various traditions—from Genesis to Hindu cosmology—unified by the idea of intentional, supernatural origin.
- genesisPoint of creation
- primordial chaosFormless state before creation
- cosmogonyStudy of universal origins
- logosBrand identification symbols
- cosmic eggMythic universe seed
Adam and Eve · ex nihilo · theogony · providence · first cause · Brahma · origin myths · demiurge · sacred art · transcendence · omnipotence · firmament · teleology · breath of life · miracle · Genesis · celestial · breath
- originsbeginning, birth, source, roots, starts
- Biblical NatureGarden of Eden, Eden, Noah's Ark, Adam and Eve, serpent
- Chinese MythologyJade Emperor, white snake, celestial beings, fox spirits, primordial chaos
- Faith and Sciencefaith and reason, intelligent design, evolution debate, compatibility, Darwin
- origins debateevolution, intelligent design, Darwinism, young earth, Darwin
- creation debateintelligent design, young earth, human origins, origin of life, Adam and Eve
divine creationevolution
Species changing over generations
natural selection · Darwinian evolution · abiogenesis · spontaneous generation · Big Bang