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creationism


 * noun the belief that the universe and living creatures were created by God in accordance with the account given in the Old Testament

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English

Main Entry: cre·a·tion·ism Pronunciation: -sh&-"ni-z&m Function: noun
 * a doctrine or theory holding that matter, the various forms of life, and the world were created by God out of nothing and usually in the way described in Genesis

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Belief in the literal interpretation of the account of the creation of the universe and of all living things related in the Bible. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

1. the doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed. 2. (sometimes cap.) the doctrine that the true story of the creation of the universe is as it is recounted in the Bible, esp. in the first chapter of Genesis. 3. the doctrine that God immediately creates out of nothing a new human soul for each individual born. Cf. traducianism. Random House Unabridged Dictionary,

creationism A literal belief in the biblical account of Creation as it appears in the Book of Genesis. Creationists believe that the creation of the world and all its creatures took place in six calendar days; they therefore deny the theory of evolution. American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition

the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis; "creationism denies the theory of evolution of species" WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism. OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

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. Webster Dictionary, 1913

creationism or creation science, belief in the biblical account of the creation of the world as described in Genesis, a characteristic especially of fundamentalist Protestantism The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05.

creationism A literal belief in the biblical account of Creation as it appears in the Book of Genesis. Creationists believe that the creation of the world and all its creatures took place in six calendar days; they therefore deny the theory of evolution. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

Creationism (Latin creatio).

(1) In the widest sense, the doctrine that the material of the universe was created by God out of no pre-existing subject. It is thus opposed to all forms of Pantheism.

(2) Less widely, the doctrine that the various species of living beings were immediately and directly created or produced by God, and are not therefore the product of an evolutionary process. It is thus opposed to Transformism.

(3) In a restricted but more usual sense, the doctrine that the individual human soul is the immediate effect of God's creative act. It is thus opposed to Traducianism. The first two acceptations of the term are treated in the article CREATION; the third alone is here considered. The proposition that the human soul is immediately created by God is a corollary of the soul's spirituality. Certain psychical phenomena, viz. intellectual and volitional -- especially when they regard immaterial objects -- indicate that their radical principle subsists essentially and intrinsically independent of the purely corporeal organism. This transmaterial subsistence supposes a corresponding mode of origin; for that the soul must have had a beginning follows obviously from its finitude and contingency. That origin cannot be:

by way of emanation from God, as Pantheists declare, since the Divine substance, being absolutely simple, cannot be subject to any emissional process; nor by spiritual generation from the souls of parents -- as the German theologian Frohschammer (1821-1893) maintained -- because human souls, being essentially and integrally simple and indivisible, can give forth no spiritual germs or reproductive elements; still less by physical generation (as corporeal Traducianists suppose), since such a mode of production plainly conflicts both with the essential simplicity and the spirituality of the soul. The only other intelligible source of the soul's existence is God; and since the characteristic and exclusive act of the Divine Cause is creation, the soul must owe its origin to that operation.

New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia

CREATIONISM: the BELIEF that humans and the entire UNIVERSE owe their existence to GOD. In recent years the word has been "hijacked" by FUNDAMENTALISTS who insist that such a belief implies a literal six day CREATION 6,000 years ago. This view is the result of nineteenth century RATIONALISM entering CHRISTIANITY and not supported by the BIBLE where the creation story does not specify the time and date of creation.

Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion, first published by InterVarsity Press, Carol Stream, USA, 1994, second edition, Regent College Press, Vancouver, 1999.

Belief that the universe was created by God in the relatively recent past, as implied by literal interpretations of biblical chronology, and that the species of terrestrial life did not arise through Darwinian evolution but, rather, all came into existence at once.

Coming of Age in the Milky Way, T. Ferris, Morrow (1988)

belief that God created universe: the belief that God created the universe Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2007