Creation is a doctrinal position in many religions and philosophical belief systems which maintains that one or more deities is responsible for creating the universe. The theological implications of creation may take a variety of forms, the most innocuous being that of a religious dogma, although there are varieties of such a belief fully compatible with a scientific point of view. There are religious believers who extend this to a strident advocacy of creationism, but the doctrinal belief is not necessarily synonymous with such advocacy.
Traditional Judaism and Christianity holds the belief in a divine creation of the cosmos as it is recounted in the Bible. This is affirmed by most scientific creationists. It is wrongly asserted by some that scientific creationists believe that the process of creation is uncovered best through scientific investigation, experiment and observation. This is incorrect. Scientific creationists believe that the processes present at the beginning of the…