Concept
Creation science
Overview
Creation science or scientific creationism is a pseudoscientific form of young Earth creationism which claims to offer scientific arguments for certain literalist and inerrantist interpretations of the Bible. It is often presented without overt faith-based language, but instead relies on reinterpreting scientific results to argue that various myths in the Book of Genesis and other select biblical passages are scientifically valid. The most commonly advanced ideas of creation science include special creation based on the Genesis creation narrative and flood geology based on the Genesis flood narrative. Creationists also claim they can disprove or reexplain a variety of scientific facts, theories and paradigms of geology, cosmology, biological evolution, archaeology, history, and linguistics using creation science. Creation science was foundational to intelligent design.
The overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is that creation science fails to qualify as scientific because it lacks empirical support, supplies no testable hypotheses, and resolves to describe natural history in terms of scientifically untestable supernatural causes. Courts, most often in the United States where the question has been asked in the context of teaching the subject in public schools, have consistently ruled since the 1980s that creation science is a religious view rather than a scientific one. Historians, philosophers of science and skeptics have described creation science as a pseudoscientific attempt to map the Bible into scientific facts. Professional biologists have criticized creation science for being unscholarly, and even as a dishonest and misguided sham, with extremely harmful educational consequences.
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Possible passages
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(“Continuation of the exposition of Genesis i, 1; it contains the mystery of the Trinity, and a type of the formation, extension, and support of the Church.”) (xxxii) 47. Thanks to Thee, O Lord. We behold _the heaven and earth_, whether the corporeal part, superior and inferior, or the spiritual and corporeal creature; and in the adorning of these parts, whereof the universal pile of the world, or rather the…
of Hippo Augustine, Confessions of St. Augustine
States what Creation science is; the author is tied to Creation science in the knowledge graph.
Yet no one can doubt the importance and the inevitableness of endeavoring to apply scientific method to these regions also. Science needs theories regarding the past history of the world.
Henri Poincaré, The Foundations of Science
Close in meaning to Creation science; the term itself is not named.
32. _Of the opinion that the angels were created before the world._ But if some one oppose our opinion, and say that the holy angels are not referred to when it is said, "Let there be light, and there was light;" if he suppose or teach that some material light, then first created, was meant, and that the angels were created, not only before the firmament dividing the waters and named "the heaven," but also before…
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
The author is tied to Creation science in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Creation science
Related ideas
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Evangelicalism
- Fossil
- Faith
- Genesis creation narrative
- General relativity
- Anglicanism
- Geology
- Book of Genesis
- Establishment Clause
- Intelligent design
- Judaism
- Paradigm
- False dilemma
- Creatio ex nihilo
- Abiogenesis
- Mutation
- Meteorology
- Methodism
- Augustine of Hippo
- Hypothesis
- Newsweek
- Noah
- Pontifical Gregorian University
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of science.