Religious Cosmology: Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Mormonism

Mormon

Biogenesis (life existed due to pre-existing life), presence of spirits which are offsprings of heavenly principles (eternal and without beginning), similar to Christianity as people are tested to live like Jesus Christ

Buddhist

The universe passes in and out with no beginning or end, concept of anatta (no-self, the absence of a permanent, unchanging, and independent self or soul within individuals or phenomena), anicca (impermanence), dukkha (suffering), samsara (endless cycle of life and death), nirvana (liberation from suffering and the endless cycle of rebirth), existence of people is dependent on their karma and teaches the path to enlightenment through spiritual development, moral conduct, and mental discipline, multiverse (different branches of time where the same events happen but with different choices), karma determines what being one is born into, non-theistic

Hindu

Creation is timeless (no beginning), universe is created, destroyed, and reverted (enternally repetitive series of cycles, many universes which all follow the same rhythm of creation and dissolution and recur at a period of 1000 Maha Yuga (great year or cycles or 4.32 billion years), concept of Atman (eternal soul), Samsara, and Moksha (liberation from Samsara), Brahman (divine entity)

Islam

Allah created the universe (similar to Christianity but with different terminology), Qu’ran, teaches to visualize cosmos as a book of symbols for meditation and contemplation to be used for spiritual upliftment