What does creationism mean and who believes in it?

Answer 1

Creationism is the belief that over a hundred years of overwhelming empirical evidence for natural selection counts for nothing in the face of an ancient fable. It's believed by anti-intellectual medievalists.

Answer 2

What Does Creationism Mean

Answer 3

Creationism means that people believe that a god of some sort created the world and different religious groups believe in the creation stories of their own. Like Christians believe in the God creating everything in 6 days and resting on the 7th.

Answer 4

Creationism is the belief in a Creator. A Supreme Being who made the universe and everything in it. More specifically, Creationism is the literal belief in the Genesis account of how the world came about and millions of people subscribe to it.

Answer 5

Creationism in current usage is the belief in a literal interpretation of specific religious works referring to God creating the universe. [1] The term "strict creationism" is sometimes used to avoid confusion with the more general concept of creation held by those whose faith accommodates theistic evolution. Similarly to avoid confusion, the term "creationism" is now rarely used in the general sense.

In modern usage, the term creationism has come to be most strongly associated with the brand of Christian fundamentalism in which the books of Genesis are held to provide absolute truths about the creation of kinds of life and often, in more literal faiths, the age of the universe and of the earth. It therefore conflicts with the more allegorical theological interpretations of the mainstream churches. "Creationism" typically connotes a religious, political, and social campaign— for instance, in education—to assert the dominance or widespread acceptance of a spiritual view of nature and of humanity's place in it. Creationism is also separate from, and should not be confused with the separate Christian tradition of "Creation Spirituality" which draws upon the theology of Matthew Fox.

Part of the series on
Creationism

History of creationism
Creation in Genesis
Genesis as an allegory

Types of creationism:
Creation science
Gap Creationism
Hindu creationism
Intelligent design
Islamic creationism
Jewish creationism
Modern geocentrism
Neo-Creationism
Omphalos creationism
Old Earth creationism
Progressive creationism
Theistic evolution
Young Earth creationism


Controversy:
Creation vs. evolution
... in public education
Associated articles
Teach the Controversy


Those who hold strict creationist views reject scientific theories that contradict their understanding of their religious texts. Most notable is the rejection of the scientific consensus[2][3][4][5] on evolution and common descent by most creationists. They often also reject the scientific consensus regarding the geologic history of the Earth, formation of the solar system, and origin of the universe.

Answer 6

Creationism is an effort to explain everything we can't easily comprehend with an inconceivably improbable explanation that strokes our ego. There is absolutely no scientific necessity for creationism, but people who don't understand thermodynamics made idiotic comparisons like finding a manufactured object in an empty desert to justify their superstitions. (This analogy does not hold because the Earth more closely resembled a giant shaking box of watch parts than an empty desert, which makes the likelihood of finding a spontaneously-assembled watch far higher... assuming the pieces were shaking for a few billion years.).

Answer 7

Creationism is the idea that a deity created all of existence.

Examples of people who believe in it would be any religion with a God.

Answer 8

A creationist is someone who believes that God created humans (and all else) in present form. A creationist is either a very uninformed person, or a very deluded person. Sadly, 51% of Americans were creationists in 2005. Gladly, though, this is down from the 2004 figure of 55%.

Bear in mind that in 2004, 25% of Americans actually believed that the sun orbited the earth! (In reality, of course, the earth orbits the sun.)

Answer 9

If you were a thoughtful person who had few other writings, and no actual scientific knowledge and were trying to get your people to work together to accomplish a goal, you might create a series of fables, that taught them what it means to work together, and why they should listen to you.

Unfortunately, after a few thousand years, some of those fables are given credence because of their age, rather than because they continue to resemble reality.

Many great thoughts by ancient people have considerable merit, but two classes of thoughts do not. One is stuff they made up to give themselves undeserved power, and the other was stuff they made up about reality because they had no clue and had to come up with something.

Most cultures come up with a creation story, that makes their culture special, and everyone else lesser beings, this was stuff made up and continued by their leaders to accomplish both of those things.

In spite of all evidence to the contrary, authoritarian leaders insist upon the story that gives them power (even if they do not personally believe it), and authoritarian followers will believe it because it makes them feel comfortable and special.

This special kind of insanity has been extensively researched about both leaders and followers, but other than talking about it I don't know that anyone has a solution.

Answer 10

Not necessarily; depends on which version of creationism. Fundie/young earth creationism takes the bible-babble 100% literally, including the age of earth - roughly 5000 years. Evolution couldn't have taken place during hat short period. However, other creaionists simply accept evolution as the way their god works. BTW, there is no need for "belief" in evolution; the evidence is overwhelming.