Creationism

Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation, and is often pseudoscientific. In its broadest sense, creationism includes various religious views, which differ in their acceptance or rejection of modern scientific concepts, such as evolution, that describe the origin and development of natural phenomena.

religious movement originating in China

creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity

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1960 film by Stanley Kramer

alternative view on scientific theme

ongoing dispute about the science of evolution

Polygenism is a theory of human origins which posits the view that humans are of different origins (polygenesis). This view is opposite to the idea of monogenism, which posits a single origin of humanity. Modern scientific views find little merit in any polygenic model due to an increased understanding of speciation in a human context, with the monogenic "Out of Africa" hypothesis and its variants being the most widely accepted models for human origins. Polygenism has historically been heavily used in service of white supremacist ideas and practices, denying a common origin between European an

argument that God created the world recently

about 33,000 small ceramic figurines allegedly found by Waldemar Julsrud in July 1944

process of evolving from a complex organism to a simpler organism

attempt to estimate the age of Earth or the universe through religious creation myths

Neo-creationism is a pseudoscientific movement which aims to restate creationism in terms more likely to be well received by the public, by policy makers, by educators and by the scientific community. It aims to re-frame the debate over the origins of life in non-religious terms and without appeals to scripture. In the United States, this comes in response to the 1987 ruling by the Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard that creationism is an inherently religious concept and that advocating it as correct or accurate in public-school curricula violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amend

creationist political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, aiming is to change U.S. culture by shaping public policy to reflect politically conservative fundamentalist evangelical Protestant values

hammer made of iron and wood that was found in London, Texas, U.S.

discussion of variation in support for the theory of evolution by geopolitical distribution

American alternative archeologist

purported to be the original forms of life as they were created by God

history of thought based on the premise that the natural universe had a beginning, and came into being supernaturally

religious and philosophical concept

status of creation and evolution in public education

creationist term for a fossil that extends through more than one geological stratum

Discovery Institute campaign to promote a variant of traditional creationism, intelligent design