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* [[Flood geology]]: A large volume of literature and evidence has been amassed regarding the [[Global flood]] of Noah.  Flood geologists believe that the Earth's geological features can only reasonably by explained with reference to the enormous and horrifying flood covered the Earth 4-5,000 years ago which was recorded and remembered by every culture in the ancient world.

* [[Creation biology]]: A large volume of literature and evidence has been amassed to support the belief that life did not originate spontaneously, but shows positive evidence of having been deliberately designed, and that all life on the Earth is not related, but that it originated separately.

* [[Creation anthropology]]: Creationists and evolutionists have serious differences regarding the origin and nature of humans.

* [[Radiometric dating]]: A large volume of literature and evidence has been amassed giving evidence that the radiometic dating methods used to determine the age of rocks and fossils are based on a combination of demonstrably false and unfalsifiable assumptions, making them so unreliable as to be useless.

Creationism has a history of several thousand years, and has found itself in conflict with [[evolutionism]] nearly as long.  Notable early pagan proponents included [[Lao Tzu]], [[Plato]], and [[Cicero]].  The [[Hebrew]] scriptures provide the most detailed and best known creation account, known as [[Biblical creationism]], which is accepted by the majority of orthodox Christians and Jews.  [[Islamic creationism]] is identical to the core narrative of Biblical creationism, but has some subtle differences.  In the 19th century, with the dawning of the scientific method, creationists began a systematic research program, known as [[Creation science]], which grew in prominence throughout the 20th century until today.  During the same time period, however, creationism came to be excluded from mainstream scientific discourse and public education, so that its research and education took place almost entirely through private means.  In the late 20th century and early 21st century, a movement known as [[Intelligent design]] grew in prominence, which seeks only to provide positive evidence that life, the earth, and the universe was designed, without explicitly identifying the designer.

== Comparison of Beliefs ==

| The Earth is no older than 10,000 years.  Hydrogen diffusion, radio halos, the decay of the Earth's magnetic field, and many other facts cap the Earth's age at below 10,000 years.  [[Radiometric dating]], claimed as evidence that the Earth is old, is based on false premises, and is unreliable.

| Elohim deliberately and quickly created all of the [[created kinds]] on Earth, fully intact, with the capacity for [[biological evolution]].  He then looked at what he had created and said "It is very good."

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| [[Progressive creationism]]

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*[http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/compromise.asp Creation Compromises: Gap Theory, Theistic Evolution, Progressive Creation] by Answers in Genesis  

*[http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=164 Theistic Evolution and the Day-Age Theory] by Richard Niessen

*[http://www.whoisyourcreator.com/ Who Is Your Creator?] A compendium of mainsteam-media reports that evolutionism is under serious debate and even outright doubt in scientific circles.

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