(March 6, 2016 at 9:19 pm)AJW333 Wrote:(March 6, 2016 at 11:13 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: This idea that god created the universe is very recent. Neither Allah, Yahweh or Elohim are given credit in their respective holy books for creating the universe. The writers of these books describe the earth and sky as it appears to the naked eye. They did not even know there was such a thing as a universe.
I'd like to study the etymology of the word "universe" and see when humans first started referring to the cosmos as such. My guess is it's only been less than 1000 years.
Hebrews 11:3
"By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible."
Quote:Universe (n.)
1580s, "the whole world, cosmos, the totality of existing things," from Old French univers (12c.), from Latin universum "all things, everybody, all people, the whole world," noun use of neuter of adjective universus "all together, all in one, whole, entire, relating to all," literally "turned into one," from unus "one" (see one) + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn" (see versus).
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
