Creation science, intelligent design and evolution

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

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Creation Science, Intelligent Design and Evolution
RELATED TOPICS	Creation Science - Young Earth Creationism, Old Earth Creationism, Intelligent Design Evolution - Theistic Evolution, Multi-Region Hypothesis, Out Of Africa Hypothesis Natural theology
SERMONS, ESSAYS AND OPINIONS	* Creation science and evolution (G.G.) Bible Study: Out-Of-Africa Hypothesis (G.G.) Sermon: Genesis 1 - Purpose (G.G.)
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Christians may disagree to the exact way in which God created the universe, but regardless of views, Christians all recognize one God, who created everything. Some Christians believe in the literal 6-day creation account of Genesis and mark the universe as 6,000 years old. Others believe the account, but say the time-frames are not known. And some believe that the stories of Genesis should not be taken literally, but instead are symbols or representations of why the world is the way it is.

Creation Science

Creation science is the theory that attempts to offer scientific evidence compatible with creation literally according to Genesis. This includes both the belief that the earth is only about 6,000 years old (Young Earth Creationism) and billions of years old (Old Earth Creationism). Although there are some out-spoken Christians with science-backgrounds who subscribe to these views, the vast majority of the world's scientists do not.

Intelligent Design

Intelligent design is the assertion that certain features of the universe and of living things exhibit the characteristics of a product resulting from an intelligent agent (God), as opposed to an unguided process.

Evolution

Evolution is the theory by which living creatures acquire and pass on randomly-acquired new traits from generation to generation, affecting the overall make-up of the population and even leading to the emergence of new species.

Theistic Evolution

In recent decades the theory of evolution, in particular, the teaching that humans can trace their origins back through earlier pre-human primates through evolution, has caused great debate among Christian circles. Many Christians have seen this as incompatible with Scripture, whereas others have conceded that, given the general scientific consensus, it is possible that our understanding of how best to interpret Genesis needs re-evaluation. Christian theology that considers the early chapters of Genesis symbolic and suspect that God brought about humanity through the process of evolution is sometimes referred to as "theistic evolution".

Out Of Africa Hypothesis versus Multi-Region Hypothesis

Interestingly, more recent scientific developments in understanding through genetic analysis have led to the theory that all humans living today can trace their ancestry back to a single woman (the Mitochondrial Eve theory) and a single man (the Y Chromosome Adam theory) who came from Africa (the Out-Of-Africa Hypothesis). Although this doesn't line up with the Genesis account on a number of levels, it is closer to the Genesis than the previous scientific Multi-Region Hypothesis of humans independently evolving in different continents.

Links

• Wikipedia - Creation science
• Wikipedia - Intelligent design
• Wikipedia - Evolution
• CreationWiki - Creation science
• CreationWiki - Intelligent design
• CreationWiki - Evolution

Young-earth creationism

• Answers in Genesis
• Creation Ministries International
• Institute for Creation Research

Old-earth creationism

• Reasons to Believe

Progressive creationism

• Progressive Creation: An Overview GodAndScience.org

Theistic evolution

• Theistic Evolution

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