creationism
Americannoun
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the doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed.
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(sometimes initial capital letter) the doctrine that the true story of the creation of the universe is as it is recounted in the Bible, especially in the first chapter of Genesis.
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the doctrine that God immediately creates out of nothing a new human soul for each individual born.
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the belief that God brings individual human souls into existence at conception or birth Compare traducianism
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the doctrine that ascribes the origins of all things to God's acts of creation rather than to evolution
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Others have argued that intelligent design is just creationism in a new package.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
“I grew up in a young Earth creationism home, with a worldview that was based in evangelical Christianity and a literal translation of the Bible,” recalls the 42-year-old Townley.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 24, 2023
Traditionally a Catholic nation, Brazil has experienced a recent growth of evangelical Protestantism, which in Brazil, tends to favor creationism.
From Scientific American ● May 12, 2023
He is a fierce opponent of the theory of evolution, and wrote a widely mocked book on creationism.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2022
Monadology, theories of the pre-existence of the soul, creationism, or the current traducianism—which to-day, with its partly or wholly materialistic basis, is just as naïve as the older—all reveal equal darkness.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
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