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The fact that the Bible opens with a description of the creation is to a certain extent misleading. It suggests that the main message of the Bible is cosmological, or at any rate that the plot of that message is played out on the cosmological scene. This suggestion is endorsed by our view of the world, which under the impact of the progress of science in the last three centuries, sees everything from the perspective of the fact that the Earth is a small planet revolving around an average star.
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Heller, M. (2009). The Metaphysics and Theology of Creation. In: Ultimate Explanations of the Universe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02103-9_14
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