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Religious cosmologies are ways of explaining the history and evolution of the universe based, at least in part, on the acceptance of principles that cannot, or do not necesarrily have to be justified, on the basis of accepted scientific arguments (See also: scientific cosmology). Most frequently, such theories begin by positing the existence of a god (or gods) who created and/or maintain the universe. Some religious cosmologies have their basis in the teachings of a particular religion or religious text, whereas others are more general reactions to the percieved difficulties in explaining the entire universe without the actions of a planning / coordinating intelligence.

Although religious cosmologies have been under attack from, mainly, rationalistic science. It is now commonly accepted as an epistemologically valid way of thinking. The main reasons for this change is the belief that science itself strongly depends on assumptions that derive from our worldview or religious convictions.

Generally all philosophical systems with a tendency towards anti-foundationalism, like postmodernism, will be open for this way of thinking. The reformed epistemologists even see it as possible, that those kind of beliefs can be properly basic.

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