Creationism - Criticism of creationism

This article is about the Abrahamic belief; creationism can also refer to origin beliefs in general or, centuries earlier, to an alternative to traducianism. Creationism or creation theology is the belief that humans, life, the Earth, and the universe were created by a supreme being or deity's supernatural intervention. The intervention may be seen either as an act of creation from nothing (ex nihilo) ...

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• Creationism - Political context
• Creationism - History of the concept of creation
• Creationism - Types of creationism
• Creationism - Jewish creationism
• Creationism - Christian God as absolute origin
• Creationism - Prevalence of creationism
• Creationism - United States
• Creationism - The western world outside the United States
• Creationism - Criticism of creationism
• Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism
• Creationism - The Christian critique of creationism
• Creationism - Creationism and naturalism

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Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism. All forms of Creationism incorporate some theological content, but they have varied considerably over time in the degree to which they incorporate scientific evidence. Since the origins of modern geology in the 18th and 19th centuries, theories of creationism have become increasingly separated from mainstream science. Many modern forms of creationism, particularly Young Earth Christian creationism, were created to defend the literal interpretation of the biblical ...

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Creationism, Creationism - Political context, Creationism - History of the concept of creation, Creationism - Types of creationism, Creationism - Jewish creationism, Creationism - Christian God as absolute origin, Creationism - Prevalence of creationism, Creationism - United States, Creationism - The western world outside the United States, Creationism - Criticism of creationism, Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism, Creationism - The Christian critique of creationism, Creationism - Creationism and naturalism

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Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism. All forms of Creationism incorporate some theological content, but they have varied considerably over time in the degree to which they try to incorporate scientific terminology. Since the origins of modern geology in the 18th and 19th centuries, theories of creationism have become increasingly separated from mainstream science. Many modern forms of creationism, particularly Young Earth Christian creationism, were created to defend the literal interpretation of the ...

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Creationism, Creationism - Overview, Creationism - Political context, Creationism - History of the concept of creation, Creationism - Types of creationism, Creationism - Jewish creationism, Creationism - Christian God as absolute origin, Creationism - Prevalence of creationism, Creationism - United States, Creationism - The western world outside the United States, Creationism - Criticism of creationism, Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism, Creationism - The Christian critique of creationism, Creationism - Creationism and naturalism

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Nearly all denominations of Christianity assert that God is the origin, the first cause. The Roman Catholic Church holds as an unchangeable tenet of Christian faith, that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth". Here, clearly, creation is described as an absolute beginning, which includes the assertion that the very existence of the universe is contingent upon a necessary higher being, a God who is not himself created. Therefore the doctrine of biblical creation places the knowledge of God central in the pursuit of the knowl ...

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Creationism, Creationism - Political context, Creationism - History of the concept of creation, Creationism - Types of creationism, Creationism - Jewish creationism, Creationism - Christian God as absolute origin, Creationism - Prevalence of creationism, Creationism - United States, Creationism - The western world outside the United States, Creationism - Criticism of creationism, Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism, Creationism - The Christian critique of creationism, Creationism - Creationism and naturalism

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Creationists believe that a divine power created life, sometimes believing that every "kind" of living thing was separately "created", while naturalists believe life came into being or developed into different species through natural means. This spectrum of opposing views has led to the debate commonly known as the creation evolution debate. ...

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Creationism, Creationism - Political context, Creationism - History of the concept of creation, Creationism - Types of creationism, Creationism - Jewish creationism, Creationism - Christian God as absolute origin, Creationism - Prevalence of creationism, Creationism - United States, Creationism - The western world outside the United States, Creationism - Criticism of creationism, Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism, Creationism - The Christian critique of creationism, Creationism - Creationism and naturalism

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See main article Judaism and evolution. Judaism has a continuum of views about creation, the origin of life and the role of evolution in the formation of species. The major Jewish denominations, including many Orthodox Jewish groups, accept evolutionary creationism or theistic evolution. The contemporary general approach of Judaism, excepting Orthodox traditions, is to not take the Torah as a literal text, but rather as a symbolic or open-ended work. As far as Orthodox Jews, who seek to reconcile discrepancies between science and the ...

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Creationism, Creationism - Political context, Creationism - History of the concept of creation, Creationism - Types of creationism, Creationism - Jewish creationism, Creationism - Christian God as absolute origin, Creationism - Prevalence of creationism, Creationism - United States, Creationism - The western world outside the United States, Creationism - Criticism of creationism, Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism, Creationism - The Christian critique of creationism, Creationism - Creationism and naturalism

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Creationism - United States. According to a 2001 Gallup poll on the origins of humans, they estimate that 72% of Americans believe in some form of creationism (as defined above). They also estimate that about 45% of Americans concurred with the statement that "God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years." In 1987, Newsweek reported: "By one count there are some 700 scientists with respectable academic credentials (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life sci ...

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In the secular sense, "creationism" refers to a political doctrine which asserts the validity and superiority of a particular religiously-based origin belief over those of other belief systems, including those in particular espoused through secular or scientific rationale — i.e. "Creation-evolution controversy." The meaning of the term "creationism" depends upon the context wherein it is used, as it refers to a particular origin belief within a particular political culture. In the United States, more so than in the rest of the world ...

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The term creationism is most often used to describe the belief that creation occurred literally as described in the book of Genesis or the Qur'an, for Jews and Christians, and for Muslims, respectively. Although the Hebrew Bible may be translated to implicitly deny "creation out of nothing" (creatio ex nihilo) and, according to some scholars, may even suggest differing accounts of creation, some Jews and Christians use Genesis exclusively as a support of their beliefs about origins. ...

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Creationism, Creationism - Overview, Creationism - Political context, Creationism - History of the concept of creation, Creationism - Types of creationism, Creationism - Jewish creationism, Creationism - Christian God as absolute origin, Creationism - Prevalence of creationism, Creationism - United States, Creationism - The western world outside the United States, Creationism - Criticism of creationism, Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism, Creationism - The Christian critique of creationism, Creationism - Creationism and naturalism

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The history of creationism is tied to the history of religions. Creationism in the West primarily had some of its earliest roots in Judaism. For example, Abraham ibn Ezra's (c. 1089–1164) commentary on Genesis is greatly esteemed in traditional rabbinical circles and he was a creationist. In the 18th and 19th centuries, naturalists challenged the Biblical account of creation as to be in conflict with empirical observations of natural history from scientific inquiry. Creationists consider their primary source to be the ancient Hebrew ...

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Creationism, Creationism - Political context, Creationism - History of the concept of creation, Creationism - Types of creationism, Creationism - Jewish creationism, Creationism - Christian God as absolute origin, Creationism - Prevalence of creationism, Creationism - United States, Creationism - The western world outside the United States, Creationism - Criticism of creationism, Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism, Creationism - The Christian critique of creationism, Creationism - Creationism and naturalism

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