Newton's Conception Of Cosmogonic Traditions

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There are cultures all over the world that while they have contrasting beliefs, they have a similar story of a god in an egg which creates the world and universe within. These beliefs have been transferred through generations of hymns, chants, and written records. Similar cosmogonic traditions are almost parallel in China, Tahiti, India, Africa, Finland, Greece,.
According to Sir Isaac Newton, “God is able to create Particles of Matter of several Sizes and Figures, and in several Proportions to Space." Newton continues with logic of different densities and forces that diversify the laws of nature, and by this, a god devising a world and the universe. As the prominent philosopher Newton puts it, “Philosophy not only brings us immediately to
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According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Pangu (Pan Ku) was self-begotten the first supreme being, who slept and incubated, not knowing for 18,000 years. During this time of Pangu’s slumber, the ying and yang balanced as the deity matured. When Pangu woke up, he realized that he was stuck so he cracked the egg open and began to push it apart with his arms and legs. By spreading the shell apart, he separated the ying and yang. In his hands, he held the top half of the shell, that became the sky and the bottom half of his feet where he stood on, turned the bottom half into the earth. The longer Pangu kept the halves divided, the thicker it became. As he grew taller, the farther the distance of the universe and the world got. Afterwards, Pangu positioned the sun, moon, planets and stars perfectly in place. He, then shaped the earth and divided the four seas. However, because of Pangu’s knowledge of the ying yang of all things were created and balance.
Remarkably, identical to the Zhuang people’s creation myth of Pangu, in Tahiti (also known as Havaiki). The natives believe that before the deity was born everything started off in the void. The creator known as Ta’aroa was born in an egg shaped shell called Rumia. Like Pangu, he was self-existent and he too grew in the egg; until, he grew restive and by himself
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The Hindus have different versions of the book, like Christians have Holy Bible and the King James Version (just to name a few). Hindu tradition practice from a variety of books as well, one in particular the Rig Veda, a collection of Sanskrit hymns, sung different theories of creation, but in the tenth book (RV 10.121) is dedicated to the beginning of when there was only the void. Although, there are various creation myths in the Rig Veda, one of them tell about the creation egg being a golden womb, fetus or embryo called the Hiranyagarbha. It is said, while the golden womb floated in the empty darkness it had contracted and birth the universe, sun, moon, planets and stars. The golden embryo gave into the natural process of the energy and heat; cultivating, the molecules that became reciprocal to the elements and atoms, which gave into the rise of heat that reflected a luminous vapor. More importantly, in the Rig Veda, it is written that Prajapati symbolized the expression of when there was light before, only darkness exist. As stated, in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, affiliated with the Prajapati (Vedic creator), Brahma (Brahmin), who was genderless was conceived from the golden embryo, afterward, Brahma created the earth and all things on

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