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'''Creationism''' is a belief system which postulates that the universe, Earth, and life on Earth were deliberately created by an intelligent being. There are a spectrum of creationist views with two main schools of [[creation]] thought known as ''religious creationism'' and [[intelligent design]]. | '''Creationism''' is a belief system which postulates that the universe, Earth, and life on Earth were deliberately created by an intelligent being. There are a spectrum of creationist views with two main schools of [[creation]] thought known as ''religious creationism'' and [[intelligent design]]. | ||
=== Young vs. Old == | |||
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!width="10%"| '''Name''' | |||
!width="24%"| '''Opinion on age of Earth''' | |||
!width="24%"| '''Opinion on origin of life''' | |||
!width="24%"| '''Opinion on Genesis''' | |||
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| [[Young earth creationism]] | |||
| 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." | |||
| Genesis was intended as a history, and its timelines and precise dates it gives for events ought to be taken at face value. The [[days of creation]] are viewed as literal, 24-hour periods because the phrase "and there was evening, and there was morning, the second day" <ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=1|verses=8|version=KJV}}</ref> cannot be reasonably interpreted as meaning anything other than a 24-hour day. | |||
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| [[Progressive creationism]] | |||
| The [[Earth]] is approximately 4.6 billion years old. The universe is approximately 13.7 billion years old. [[Radiometric dating]] is an accurate means of determining the age of the Earth. | |||
| God created life on Earth slowly and gradually, over millions and billions of years, either by means of evolution or by waiting millions of years between acts of creation. | |||
|The [[days of creation]] in Genesis represent long periods of time, not literal 24-hour days. To support this, [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2pe%203&version=31 2 Peter 3]:8 is often cited. Young-earth creationists, however, maintain that this is a misquotation, and that the verse is intended as an expression of the timelessness of God, not as a guideline to interpret the 'days' of Genesis (or the 'days' of any other part of the Bible, for that matter). | |||
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| [[Theistic evolution]] | |||
| The [[Earth]] is approximately 4.6 billion years old. The universe is approximately 13.7 billion years old. [[Radiometric dating]] is an accurate means of determining the age of the Earth. | |||
| Life evolved on Earth by means of variation and [[natural selection]], over millions and billions of years. God acted through natural means, and thus in a way indistinguishable from the ordinary course of nature. | |||
| The [[creation]] story in [[Genesis]] is not history. It is a mythological allegory intended to present meaning. | |||
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== Types of Creationism == | == Types of Creationism == | ||
