What is creationism?

Creationism is a religious belief that the universe was created by the deity of creation. Creationism first appeared in ancient pagan religions, and many world cultures have myths about creation, although they are widely separated in time and space. This phenomenon suggests that the myth of creation can be human universal or almost. Today, creationism is closely linked to Abraham religions, such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but for many thousands of years creationism has been unconnected with one of these relatively modern religions.

All the time of its lengthy history has added creationism a specific answer to the long-term question-which nature has come here and why is it so complicated? Until Charles Darwin's origin of the origin of the species in 1858, there were few viable demands on the idea that a being of intentionally created nature. However, even among the creationists, there was always a great disagreement of the creation of the world was responsible for God or gods. In general would such a belief fromLocal culture and tradition - natives had a time of dreams, various tribes of native Americans had their own beliefs, early Europeans believed in various gods of harvest, wars and fertility, etc.

In the last few thousand years, Abrahamic religions have spread to most of the Earth's faces, transformed billions and combined creationism with the idea of ​​a particular abrahamic God. Many creationists reject evolution and claim that theology of Christian creation should be taught in scientific classrooms next to Darwin's theory. Most scientists vehemently reject creationism and controversy. Creationists differ from the degree in which they imagine their God or gods as an active participant in the development of the universe or just the initial creator and subsequent -follower. Many creationists believe in Darwin's evolution and says that although their God initially created the universe at the beginning, he did not create an individualAnimals that have been developed by billions of years since unicellular ancestors. This attitude was called theist development.

Around 1929, the term "creationism" in the United States began to be strongly associated with a new wave of Christian fundamentalism, especially popular in the National Midwest. These new creationists emphasized the literal interpretation of Genesis, which states that the world and all its initial residents, including the ancestors of all living people and animals, were created in seven days about 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, depending on their interpretation of the Bible genealogy. These creationists are one of the most enthusiastic advocates of the idea of ​​creationism, and the strongest encounters with anti-creationist scientists.