Creation

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Creation may refer to:

In religion and philosophy

• Creation ex nihilo, the concept that matter comes "from nothing"
• Creation myth, stories of the supernatural creation of the Earth and its inhabitants
• Genesis creation narrative, The Biblical account of creation

In science and technology

• Matter creation, the appearance of elementary particles, in physical processes such as pair production

In the arts

• Creation (1931 film), a 1931 film that inspired King Kong
• Creation (2009 film), a 2009 film by Jon Amiel about the life of Charles Darwin
• Creation (album), a 2005 album from Leslie Satcher
• Creation (band), a teen musical group, first album 2005
• Creation (Dragonlance), of the world of Krynn, fictional world of Dragonlance
• Creation (novel), a 1981 novel by Gore Vidal
• Creation (William Billings), a hymn tune composed by William Billings
• Creation Records, a record label created in 1983 by Alan McGee
• "Creation", a song by Zion I from Mind Over Matter
• "The Creation of Adam", a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511
• The Creation (band), a British band
• The Creation (Haydn), a 1798 oratorio by Joseph Haydn
• La création du monde, a 1923 ballet by Darius Milhaud
• "The Creation," a 1927 poem by James Weldon Johnson, published in God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
• The Creation: An Appeal To Save Life on Earth, a 2006 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson

In organizations

• Creation Autosportif, a sports car racing team based out of Oxford, England
• Creation Books, a British publishing company
• Creation Entertainment, an American company that runs numerous science fiction and fantasy conventions
• Creation Festivals, two annual, four-day Christian music festivals held in the United States
• Creation Ministries International, publishers of the young earth magazine Creation Magazine and the scientific Journal of Creation
• Creation Museum, a American Creationist museum located near Petersburg, Kentucky

Noun

creation (countable and uncountable; plural creations)

1. (countable) An invention, artwork, etc

   I think the manufacturer was so ashamed of their creation that they didn't put their name on it!

2. (uncountable) The act of creating something.

   The restructure resulted in the creation of a number of shared services.

3. (uncountable) All which exists

   Let us pray to Christ, the King of all creation.

Derived terms

• biological creation
• cocreation, co-creation
• cosmic creation
• cultural creation
• emergent creation
• creation denial
• creation denier
• genetic creation
• intelligent design creation
• long-age creation

• macrocreation
• microcreation
• old-earth creation
• organic creation
• planetary creation
• short-age creation
• social creation
• stellar creation
• young-age creation
• young-earth creation
• young-universe creation

Creationism is the position that the Universe, Earth, and life of Earth were created by one or more intelligent agents, usually the God of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism as recorded in Genesis and the Quran.

Intelligent Design (ID) the position that there is positive evidence that life on Earth was created by one or more intelligent agents, but without making any explicit claim as to the identity or divinity of the agent or agents.

Contents

• 1 Western thought
  • 1.1 Hebrew scriptures
  • 1.2 Greek and Roman quotes
  • 1.3 Christian New Testament
  • 1.4 19th century and earlier
  • 1.5 20th and 21st centuries
    • 1.5.1 Sourced
    • 1.5.2 Attributed
• 2 Eastern thought
  • 2.1 Hindu scriptures
  • 2.2 Jainism
• 3 See also

Western thought

Hebrew scriptures

• "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." -Psalms 19:1.

• "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: 'Who is this that speaks so ignorantly? Stand up like a man: I will question you, and you will answer me. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you are so smart. Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" -Job 38:1-7.

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