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.

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Abrahamic - Origin belief - Traducianism

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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) or the emergence of order from preexisting chaos.

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Theology - Human - Life - Earth - Universe - Supreme being - Deity - Supernatural - Ex nihilo

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Many who hold "creation" beliefs consider such belief to be a part of religious faith, and hence compatible with, or otherwise unaffected by scientific views while others maintain the scientific data is compatible with creationism. Proponents of evolutionary creationism may claim that understood scientific mechanisms are simply aspects of supreme creation. Otherwise, science-oriented believers may consider the scriptural account of creation as simply a metaphor.

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Faith - Scientific - Evolutionary creationism - Scriptural - Creation - Metaphor

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Those who hold literal creation views often reject modern views of science and certain scientific theories in particular. Most notable is the rejection of evolution and its implications for current evolutionary biology. While the general idea of natural selection may fit into various particular views, the evolutionary concept of common descent —that humans are "descended from lesser creatures" — is a point of great issue with most creation believers. Some creationists may also dispute scientific accounts of the origin of life, origin of the human species, the geological history of Earth, the formation of the solar system, the origin of the physical universe.

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Scientific theories - Evolution - Evolutionary biology - Natural selection - Common descent - Origin of life - Origin of the human species - Geological history of Earth - The formation of the solar system - The origin of the physical universe

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