Last Thursdayism
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Last Thursdayism (sometimes Last Tuesdayism or Last Wednesdayism) is a joke version of omphalism, and of Bertrand Russell's Five minute hypothesis. It is the idea that the world was created last Thursday, but with the appearance of age: people's memories, history books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and so forth. As such it resembles the Occasionalism of Malebranche.
A recent manifestation of Last Thursdayism appeared on the USENET group talk.origins in 1991, as a hyperbolic response to omphalism. It gradually gained popularity, and in 1997 it was expanded into a grand theology, similar to Unicornism or Pastafarianism, which claimed that the universe was created Last Thursday by "Queen Maeve the Housecat", who would destroy the world Next Thursday, saving those who were nice to cats and damning evildoers to the never-cleaned Eternal Litterbox. Since then the website for Last Thursdayism has become defunct.
It should be noted that in some circles, especially talk.origins, Last Tuesdayism is taken as a schism of Last Thursdayism and is founded on the belief that the world was created last Tuesday but that unlike last Thursdayism, this happens every Tuesday.
