Creation

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Creation may refer to:

In religion and philosophy:

  • Creation myth, a supernatural mytho-religious story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, or the universe.
  • Creation according to Genesis, the Hebrew creation myth as told in the first book of the Bible, Genesis.
  • Creatio ex nihilo (English: Creation from nothing).
  • Creationism, the belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in their original form by a deity.

In science:

  • Matter creation, the appearance of elementary particles, in physical processes such as pair production; the process opposite of annihilation.
  • Invention, the act of creating a new process or device

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