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creationism
Word definitions for creationism in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context theology English) The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism. 2 Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the literal belief in the account of creation given in the Book of Genesis; "creationism denies the theory of evolution of species"
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Creationism is a doctrine held by some Christians that God creates a soul for each body that is generated. Alternative Christian views on the origin of souls are traducianism and also the idea of a pre-existence of the soul .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creationism \Cre*a"tion*ism\ (-?z'm), n. The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1847, originally a Christian theological position that God immediately created a soul for each person born; from creation + -ism . As a name for the religious reaction to Darwin, opposed to evolution , it is attested from 1880.\nJames Ussher (1581-1656), ...
Usage examples of creationism.
The antitheses of uniformitarianism and evolution are flood geology and creationism.
That lecture on creationism had been a gift by Huro, rich with too much knowledge, a bauble tossed carelessly away by a man come to advise on sewage.
Wise science teachers, sensing the shift in public opinion, accorded more time and emphasis to creationism, as they called it, than to the much-ridiculed theory of evolution, and a generation of California students was beginning to believe that Darwinism was a fraud perpetrated by atheistic humanists, because Reverend Strabismus and the other preachers who shared his television show said so.
Creationism is simply a theistic belief system and offers no credible scientific evidence whatsoever for its beliefs.
The Lords of the Order, in the first year of their ascendency, found themselves squabbling endlessly over rules of order, protocol, religious and political definitions, and over creationism or cybernetic gnosticism or other ideologies.
Ethiopia sells us out to the Marxists and comes out owing them two billion dollars for arms, Somalia rigs up something called scientific socialism that's just about as real as this scientific creationism, they keep it running long enough to build up a vast system of patronage and corruption when a coup d'etat hands them over to us and we get to pay the bills no no no, if all this is a Marxist Leninist conspiracy to take over the dark continent it's a pretty damned pitiful show.
He is the author of more than five hundred nonfiction articles on subjects ranging from scientific creationism to the U.