Non-Scientific Beliefs

• Creationist theory


  The belief that the universe and various forms of life were created by God out of nothing
• Types of creationists


  • Biblical or young earth creationists
  • Old earth creationists
• Biblical or young earth creationists


  • Believe the story told in Genesis of God's sixth day creation is factually correct, based on computations from the Bible that the Earth is only 6,000-10,000 years old
• Old earth creationists


  • Believe the creator made everything that exists, but the story in Genesis may not be a literal history of creation, and the Earth is actually quite old
• Mainstream scientists and biologists generally reject creationism
• Intelligent design


  The claim that all living things were created in more or less their present forms by an intelligent designer
• Intelligent design was formulated in the 1990s as an explicit refutation of the theory of biological evolution advanced by Charles Darwin
• Intelligent design proponents observe that the functional parts and systems of living organisms are irreducibly complex, meaning they cannot exist without a designer
• The holographic principle is a property of quantum gravity theories that resolves the black hole information paradox within string theory
• Holographic principle


  The description of a volume of space should be thought of as encoded on a boundary to the region, preferably a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon for a black hole
• The holographic principle states that the description of all the objects that will ever fall on its entirety is contained in the surface fluctuations of the event horizon
• Steady state theory


  The view that the universe has always been expanding while maintaining a constant average density of materials, with matter being continuously created to form new stars and galaxies at the same rate that old ones become unobservable
• The steady state theory was very popular in the 1950s, but evidence against it began to emerge in the early 1960s
• Bible Creations

  1. First day: Day and Night
  2. Second day: Dome and sky
  3. Third day: Land and Seas
  4. Fourth day: Light upon Earth and heavens
  5. Fifth day: Sea Creatures and Birds
  6. Sixth day: Animals, humans, and living creatures
  7. Seventh day: Rest
• Big crunch theory - the universe will eventually run out of energy and contract into a singularity.
• Egyptian Belief - The gods were omnipotent and omniscient. The universe emerged from a vast cosmic ocean of nothingness. The creator sun-god Atum drifted asleep in this primordial sea called Nun. The creator awoke and willed a small island that called all things into existence. Male god and air (Shu)and moisture goddess (Tefnut).
• Africn belief

  • Bumba, ill for millions of years illness of loneliness vomited the sun and water.
  • Nyonye Ngana attempted to make white ants, but died in the effort.
  • Chonganda, the second son, created a plant from which all trees and plants have sprung
  • Chedi Bumba, created the kite. Lightning became so troublesome that Bumba chased her into the sky, but she continued to strike at the earth.