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creationism
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Creationism
Creationism
is the
religious belief
that the
Universe
and
life
originated "from specific acts of
divine creation
." For
young Earth creationists
, this includes a
biblical literalist
interpretation of the
Genesis creation narrative
and the rejection of the
scientific theory
of
evolution
. As the
history of evolutionary thought
developed from the 18th century on, various views aimed at reconciling the
Abrahamic religions
and Genesis with
biology
and other
sciences
developed in
Western culture
. Those holding that
species
had been created separately (such as
Philip Gosse
in 1857) were generally called "advocates of creation" but were also called "creationists," as in private correspondence between
Charles Darwin
and his friends. As the
creation–evolution controversy
developed over time, the term "anti-evolutionists" became common. In 1929 in the United States, the term "creationism" first became associated with
Christian fundamentalists
, specifically with their rejection of
human evolution
and belief in a
young Earth
—although this usage was contested by other groups, such as
old Earth creationists
and
evolutionary creationists
, who hold different concepts of creation, such as the acceptance of the age of the Earth and biological evolution as understood by the
scientific community
.
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