To the Editor:. Curcio seems to use interchangeably. He mixes them up and in the process, may confuse readers. Creationism holds that the universe and all that is in it was created by a supreme being. Creationists come in two kinds: young-earth creationists and old-earth creationists. Young-earth creationism is based on an interpretation of the book of Genesis in the Bible.
According to young-earth creationists, the God of the Bible created the universe and everything in it in six hour days, the universe is about 10, years old, and the fossils were largely created by the global flood of Noah's time when great masses of sea, aquatic and land animals were swept across the continents to be deposited in clusters, even on mountaintops.
Old-earth creationists allow more latitude in their interpretation of Genesis. It does not take Muslin and Jewish Creationism into account.
It does not quote any sources in order to confirm its claims. It should revised and corrected. A court has held that there is no functional difference between the two concepts and that both are religious views and are not supported by science. In court it was shown that in Pandas and People the words were changed to call it intelligent design instead of creationism in an attempt to get the books introduced into school science classes.
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And what is intelligent design and how does it differ from creationism? Creationism is largely based on religious belief, but gains much support from what its protagonists see as the failures of other theories to explain the evidence properly.
In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions. Creationism teaches that life on Earth is the result of God's creative action, and not the result of blind scientific processes.
Creationism doesn't attempt to explain how God did this:. We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe. This is why we refer to divine creation as Special Creation.
We cannot discover by scientific investigation anything about the creative processes used by God. It comes in a variety of forms, and the most common are listed below. But there are other forms of Creationism which include different combinations of the ideas mentioned:. Scientists are almost unanimous in saying that as the Earth is 4 billion years old, and that the Young Earth theory is false. Day-Age creationism adds an element that reconciles the long period of time shown by the fossil record with the story in Genesis.
Progressive creationism accepts the scientific timetable of creation, and gives evolution a small part to play in the story of life. Creationists believe that God made current life-forms from scratch. The ID movement takes no position on how life got here, and many adherents believe in evolution. Some even grant a role to the evolutionary engine posited by Darwin: natural selection. They just deny that natural selection alone could have driven life all the way from pond scum to us.
Whatever problems the theory of intelligent design may have, it should be allowed to rise or fall on its own merits, not on the merits of some other theory. In reality, there are a variety of reasons why ID should not be confused with creationism: 1.
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