Noun

Singular creationism

Plural uncountable

creationism (uncountable)

1. The Catholic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism
2. Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator god.
   • 2006, Philip Clayton, Zachary R. Simpson, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199279276, page 735:

     Creation means that the various forms of life began abruptly through the agency of an intelligent creator with their distinctive features already intact—fish with fins and scales, birds with feathers, beaks, and wings, etc.

3. The creationary beliefs of Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism or Islam.
4. The theological controversy concerning the origin of the human species, and other living beings, and especially questioning in what sense if any the creationary acts of God are considered a matter of historical fact
5. The subject of a debate concerning origins and the findings of science, focused on the degree to which the theory of evolution is compatible with religious belief in the Creator.

Antonyms

• traducianism

Synonyms

• intelligent design

Related terms

• create
• creation
• creationist
• creator
• cdesign proponentsists

Creationism is the religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in some form by a supernatural being or beings. However the term is more commonly used to refer to religiously motivated rejection of certain biological processes, in particular evolution, in favour of an interpretation of a creation myth as an explanation accounting for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on earth (the creation-evolution controversy). In Christian sects such creationism is usually based on a literal reading of the creation myth found in the book of Genesis. Other religions have deity-led creation myths which are quite different.

Since the end of the 19th century belief in creationism has decreased as scientific theories have been presented that support more naturalistic explanations for the universe and for life. While some have tried to refute these theories, others believe in types of creationism that do not exclude all of these theories. When mainstream scientific research produces conclusions which contradict a strict creationist interpretation of scripture, creationists often reject the conclusions of the research and/or its underlying scientific theories and/or its methodology. Both creation science and intelligent design have been characterized as pseudoscience by the mainstream scientific community. The most notable disputes concern the evolution of living organisms, the idea of common descent, the geological history of the Earth, the formation of the solar system and the origin of the universe.

Quotations about Creationism and Intelligent Design.

Creationism is the position that the Universe, Earth, and life of Earth were created by one or more intelligent agents, usually the God of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism as recorded in Genesis and the Quran.

Intelligent Design (ID) the position that there is positive evidence that life on Earth was created by one or more intelligent agents, but without making any explicit claim as to the identity or divinity of the agent or agents.

Contents

• 1 Western thought
  • 1.1 Hebrew scriptures
  • 1.2 Greek and Roman quotes
  • 1.3 Christian New Testament
  • 1.4 19th century and earlier
  • 1.5 20th century
    • 1.5.1 Sourced
    • 1.5.2 Attributed
• 2 Eastern thought
  • 2.1 Hindu scriptures
• 3 See also

Western thought

Hebrew scriptures

• "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." -Psalms 19:1.

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