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There have been many theories that pertain to the creation of the universe. Many of these theories have religion based backgrounds, including variations of the most common theory; the big bang. There have also been some scientific theories including the previously mentioned big bang theory. The oscilate and steady state theories, among others Most of the religion based theories have a unanimous idea that the universe was created by either "God", "The Creator", or a "higher Spirit" some Christians believe that "God" created the heavens and the rest of the universe in seven days. Christianity is not the only religion that believes a god created the universe, in the Islamic religion, Allah (the creator) is said to have made all living things out of water. And that the earth and heavens were once conjoined, and the humans were the ones to separate it. Another religious theory is that not so much of a "God" or religious figure created the universe, but that something like a "Higher Power", something like a Super Scientist created everything in the universe and did not act alone. Another Religious Theory describes an idea that some sort of entity outside of our knowledge of existence created everything throughout our universe. Some religious theories have been traced back to ancient times, the people in ancient civilizations believed that their gods just emerged from the void and created the universe. As you read more and more in depth into the religion based theories, you see how they become more and more unrealistic, for example; in the Mayan Account theory they believe that three water serpents and three heaven dwellers created the earth and universe. ======

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In Buddhism, it is believed that the Buddha showed that __the world is in a state of becoming__. At any given moment, some people are born and others die, some stars are born while others die, some galaxies are born as others die. At any level that __we examine the universe, from the atomic to the galactic, changes are happening and the universe is never set, never finished, but always in a state of becoming__ - a work in progress. According to this point of view, it does not make sense to try to affirm that //creation happened either a short time or a long time ago, because creation is happening right now.// It is a continuous process with a complimentary process of destruction. In other words, in Buddhism creation is a participative and never ending process instead of an observed and previously completed event. ======

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As a Counter Argument to the religion based theories, there is a scientific theory called the "Always Has Been" Theory which because the theologians do not offer a clear explanation to whom or what created their "God" then why couldn't the universe just "be". As far as other scientific theories go, the most common is the big bang theory. The big bang theory was created not by one person, it is said to have been created by a scientist and a catholic priest whose theories relied on Albert Einstein's General theory of relativity. The Big Bang Theory was created to explain the two facts that we know about the universe- it is expanding, and Cooling. In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble found that galaxies far from our own Milky Way are moving away from us. He also believed that the further away galaxies are, the faster they are receding. So he then concluded that the whole Universe must have been expanding. Working backwards this means that at one stage the Universe must have come from a single point (eventually leading to the idea of the Big Bang). ======

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// The easiest way to understand this concept is to think of the Universe as a fruitcake in an oven. As it bakes, the cake rises and all the other bits of fruit inside of the cake move further and further away. No matter whereabouts in the cake, all the pieces of fruit are moving around at the same rate. But unlike the fruitcake, there is no centre to the Universe. // ======

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Another theory of the creation of the universe is called the Steady State Theory which was created in 1948 by Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold, Hermann Bondi and others, as an alternative to the Big Bang Theory. The Steady State Theory is based around the principals that there is always new matter in space being created. ======

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[|Big Bang Video] [|Wikipedia - Big Bang] [|Theory of Creation - Buddhism]