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In the history of religion monotheism, the doctrine that ‘there is one God,’ or that ‘God is One,’ is somewhat sharply opposed to a very wide range of beliefs and teachings. The contrast, when it appears in the religion of people, or in the general evolution of religion, it often tends to have an important bearing both upon religious practices and upon religious experience, since to believe in ‘One God’ means, basically to abandon many older beliefs, hopes, fears, and customs relating to the ‘many gods.’ An ongoing effort has been made to define monotheism by making explicit reference to philosophical doctrines concerning the question whether the world was created or is self-existent. That set of Christian theological doctrines and of scholastic interpretations of Aristotle which goes by the name of ‘creationism’ has played an important part in the history of the more technical forms of monotheism.Creationism is the familiar doctrine that ‘the world was created by God.’ This doctrine can become clear only if one first knows what one means by God. Aristotle was born in 384 BC and lived until 322 BC. He was a Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato being considered the most famous of ancie