Creationism
John C. WhitcombHenry M. Morris
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For everyone
Creationism holds that living species (or basic "kinds") were created directly and separately by God. Young-earth creationism, based on a literal reading of scripture, holds that the Earth is a few thousand years old; old-earth creationism accepts geological ages but maintains that species were created separately. In Turkey, too, creationism has been advocated in widely circulated publications, especially since the 1990s.
For specialists
Whitcomb and Morris's "The Genesis Flood" (1961) made "flood geology", explaining fossils and sedimentary strata by a global flood, the basis of modern creationism. Creationists accept variation within "baramin" (created kinds) but not common ancestry across them. Numbers's history documents how the movement spread from the US to other regions, including the Muslim world.
Claims
Evidence
Supporting
The first chapter of Genesis narrates that plants and animals were created "according to their kinds".[2]
The appearance of many animal groups in the fossil record within a relatively short time in the Cambrian is cited by creationists as a sign of sudden creation.[1]
Challenging
Shared endogenous retrovirus remnants and pseudogenes at the same locations in the genomes of different species are interpreted as evidence of common ancestry.[3]
Positions
- Ronald Numbers, historian of creationism
- Creationism based on flood geology is a 20th-century movement that spread worldwide after the 1980s.[4]
Connections
Argues against
Related
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Sources
- Book (1961). The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and its Scientific Implications. Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, Philadelphia
- ScriptureTekvin / Genesis 1:11–25sefaria.orgarchive
- Article (2005). Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome. Nature 437, 69–87DOI 10.1038/nature04072archive
- Book (2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Harvard University Press, expanded edition
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Athena contributors. (2026). Creationism. Athena: The tree of human knowledge. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://latifkedi.github.io/athena/en/d/yaratiliscilik/
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