See Last Thursdayism on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2007 December 15, Donald R. Prothero, “The Nature of Science”, in Evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 9:",
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"(philosophy) The proposition that the universe began to exist last Thursday, with the appearance of age and history."
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