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cosmology
1. The scientific study of the structure and evolution of the universe as a whole.
2. A field of study that brings together the natural sciences, particularly astronomy and physics, in a joint effort to understand the physical universe as a unified whole.
3. That branch of astronomy concerned with the origin, structure, content, and evolution of the universe.

Creation myths and the Big Bang are theories of cosmology.

cosmology
A study of the origin and nature of the world.
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