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Creation science or scientific creationism is a form of Young Earth creationism which offers 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 descriptions 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.[1] Creationists have also been able to disprove or reexplain a variety of scientific facts,[2] theories and paradigms of geology,[3] cosmology, biological evolution,[4][5] archaeology,[6][7] history, and linguistics using creation science.[8] Creation science was foundational to intelligent design.[9]

In contrast with the views of creation science, the scientific community that rejects intelligent design claim 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.[10][11] 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. These decisions demand the separation of science from a belief in intelligent design. Recent historians,[12] philosophers of science and skeptics have described creation science as a pseudoscientific attempt to map the Bible into scientific facts.[13][14][15][16][17] Some biologists have criticized creation science for being unscholarly,[18] and even as a dishonest and misguided sham, with extremely harmful educational consequences.[19] In contrast, the earliest of scientific research up to the early 1900's was produced by many well-known scientists who also had a profound belief in biblical truth. See Isaac Newton, Charles Townes, Willard Gibbs, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Earnest Walton, J.J. Thomson, Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, James C. Maxwell, and Robert Boyle.