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History of creationism Creation in Genesis Genesis as an allegory The Creation of Light by Gustave Doré. Creation refers to the concept that all humanity, life, the Earth, or the universe as a whole was created by a deity (often referred to as God). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The history of creationism is tied to the history of religions. ... Creation according to Genesis refers to the description of the creation of the heavens and the earth by God, as described in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. ... Allegorical interpretations of Genesis is devoted to historical and contemporary non-literal regarding the book of Genesis. ...

Types of creationism: Creation science Gap Creationism Hindu creationism Intelligent design Islamic creationism Jewish creationism Modern geocentrism Neo-Creationism Omphalos creationism Old Earth creationism Progressive creationism Theistic evolution Young Earth creationism Creation science refers to the attempts by creationists (especially those who believe in a young Earth) to use the methods and empirical practices of science to support their side of the creation-evolution controversy. ... Gap Creationism, also called Restitution creationism or Ruin-Reconstruction, are terms used to describe a particular set of Christian beliefs about the creation of the Universe and the origin of man. ... This article examines the concept of creationism as found in Hinduism and movements associated with the concept. ... Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. ... Islamic creationism – While contemporary Islam tends to take religious texts very literally, it sees Genesis as a corrupted version of Gods message. ... Jewish views on evolution includes a continuum of views about evolution, creationism, and the origin of life. ... Modern geocentrism is a belief currently held by certain groups that the Earth is the center of the universe and does not move. ... Neo-creationism is a movement whose goal is to restate creationism in terms more likely to be well received by the public, policy makers, educators, and the scientific community. ... The omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book by Philip Henry Gosse in which he argued that in order for the world to be functional, God must have created the Earth with mountains, canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and navels... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Theistic evolution, less commonly known as evolutionary creationism, is not a theory in the scientific sense, but a particular view about how the science of evolution relates to some religious interpretations. ... Adam and Eve, the first human beings according to Genesis Young Earth creationism is a religious doctrine which teaches that the Earth and life on Earth were created by a direct action of God relatively recently (about 6,000 to 10,000 years ago). ...

Controversy: Creation vs. evolution ... in public education Associated articles Teach the Controversy The creation-evolution controversy (also termed the creation vs. ... The legal status of creation and evolution in public education is the subject of a great deal of debate in legal, political, and religious circles, mainly in the United States. ... The following is a clearinghouse of articles which refer to terms often used in the context of the creation-evolution controversy: // Origins Main article: Origin beliefs The creation-evolution controversy often is cast as a controversy surrounding the origin beliefs. ... Teach the Controversy is a slogan the Discovery Institute uses to promote intelligent design[1] and advance an education policy for US public schools which introduces creationist explanations for the origin of life to public-school science curricula. ...

Progressive creationism is a form of Old Earth creationism that accepts that new species have appeared successively over earth's long history but that, to a greater or lesser degree, each species represents a fiat miracle (thus the creationism part), and that the first pair or representatives of species were original and new creations formed outside the realm of naturalistic science. This distinguishes it from theistic evolution which holds that natural evolutionary mechanisms were guided by God. Progressive creation generally rejects naturalistic macroevolution as untenable biologically, and counterindicated historically in the fossil record. By implication, progressive creationism generally rejects the possibility of each species' ancestors having a predecessor, and by implication the concept of universal descendence from a Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA or LUA). It incorporates and accepts some modern physical science, viewing the Big Bang as evidence of the creative power of God. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Theistic evolution, less commonly known as evolutionary creationism, is not a theory in the scientific sense, but a particular view about how the science of evolution relates to some religious interpretations. ... Luca or LUCA may refer to: Luca, a location on Spira, the setting of video games Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 The last universal common ancestor This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Lua has a number of meanings: For the Roman goddess, see Lua. ... According to the Big Bang theory, the universe originated in an infinitely dense and physically paradoxical singularity. ...

Progressive Creationists generally believe that God specially created "kinds" of organisms (genetically unrelated to older kinds) sequentially, thus explaining the order seen in the fossil record, as well as the punctuation between species.

Historical development

In the early 19th century many such theories were produced by scientists looking to explain developments in geology but opposed to what they saw as atheistic Lamarckian evolution, disreputably associated with the French Revolution and radical democratic agitators, although the term "creationism" would not be coined until the late 19th century. In the early 1830s the geologist Sir Charles Lyell set out a gradualist theory in which each species was sequentially produced in its "centre of creation" and was designed for the habitat, but would go extinct when the habitat changed. This view was supported by John Herschel and developed in the direction of Evolutionary creationism by Charles Babbage. For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ... Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 – December 28, 1829) was a French naturalist and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. ... The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a vital period in the history of France and Europe as a whole. ... The Radicals were a parliamentary political grouping in the United Kingdom in the early to mid 19th century, who helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party. ... Charles Lyell The frontispiece from Principles of Geology Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet Kt (November 14, 1797 – February 22, 1875), Scottish lawyer, geologist, and populariser of uniformitarianism. ... Gradualism, in biology, holds that evolution occurs through the accumulation of slight modifications over a period of generations. ... John Herschel Sir John Frederick William Herschel (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English mathematician and astronomer. ... Theistic evolution, or the less common term, Evolutionary Creationism, is the general belief that some or all classical religious teachings about God and creation are compatible with some or all of the scientific theory of evolution. ... Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer. ...

By 1836 the anatomist Richard Owen had theories influenced by Johannes Peter Müller that living matter had an "organising energy", a life-force that directed the growth of tissues and also determined the lifespan of the individual and of the species. In the 1850s Owen developed ideas of "archetypes" in the Divine mind producing a sequence of species in "ordained continuous becoming". Following publication of The Origin of Species Owen became a bitter critic of Darwin, arguing his own "axiom of the continuous operation of the ordained becoming of living things" in which new species appeared at birth, not through natural selection. Sir Richard Owen KCB (July 20, 1804–December 18, 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. ... Johannes Peter Müller (July 14, 1801, Koblenz – April 28, 1858, Berlin), was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, and ichthyologist not only known for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge. ... The title page of the 1859 edition of On the Origin of Species. ...

Modern progressive creationism

Although many Young-Earth creationists equate progressive creationism with theistic evolution, it is distinct in that God is seen to regularly involve himself in the process of species development through special creative acts. Most notably, most progressive creationists would state that God specially created Adam directly as opposed to breathing life into a sub-human animal. Creationism is generally the belief that the universe was created by a deity, or alternatively by one or more powerful and intelligent beings. ... Theistic evolution, less commonly known as evolutionary creationism, is not a theory in the scientific sense, but a particular view about how the science of evolution relates to some religious interpretations. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... Michelangelos The Creation of Adam, a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, shows God creating Adam, with Eve in His arm. ...

Proponents of the Progressive creation theory include Millard Erickson, neo-evangelical theologian Bernard Ramm, and astronomer-turned-apologist Hugh Ross, whose organization, Reasons To Believe, accepts the scientifically determined age of the Earth but seeks to disprove Darwinian evolution. Answers In Creation also has material promoting progressive creation but does not preclude either gap creationism or theistic evolution as possibilities. Neo-Evangelicalism is the trend that started in the Fundamentalist movement in the middle of the twentieth century, among conservative Protestants, as a rejection of Fundamentalist separatism. ... Bernard L. Ramm (1916-1992) was born in Butte, Montana and was a Baptist theologian and apologist within the broad Evangelical tradition. ... A giant Hubble mosaic of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant. ... Christian apologetics is the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of Christianity. ... Hugh Ross Hugh N. Ross (born 1945) is a Canadian-born Old Earth Creationist. ... Modern geologists, based on extensive and detailed scientific evidence, consider the age of the Earth to be around 4. ... This article is about biological evolution. ... AICs logo Answers In Creation (AIC) is a non-profit web-based Christian apologetics ministry with a focus on the false science portrayed byYoung Earth Creationism and its proponents. ... Gap Creationism, also called Restitution creationism or Ruin-Reconstruction, are terms used to describe a particular set of Christian beliefs about the creation of the Universe and the origin of man. ...

External links

• Answers In Creation - Supporting Progressive Creationists by showing the flaws in young earth creationism
• Research and Essays on Evolution and the Bible
• Essays and Biblical Studies on the Big Bang and Evolution
• Reasons To Believe, Pasadena, CA.
• Hugh Ross and ‘progressive creationism’: why is it wrong to add billions of years to the Bible?
• Progressive Creation: An Overview