Profiles Index

Is Creationism Science? Creationists Claim that Creationism is Scientific
Creationists commonly argue that their position is not only scientific, but even that it is more scientific than evolution. That is a pretty dramatic claim, especially since it has been established that evolution is very scientific, and it deserves closer consideration. This article will explain how and why creationism isn't science or scientific according to the standards of science.

Young Earth Creationism: Creationists Who Believe that the Earth is Young
Young Earth Creationists (YEC), the largest and most vocal group of creationists active in America, rely upon the most literal interpretation of the Bible in comparison to other forms of special creationism. At its heart, the Young Earth Creationist movement is a movement of conservative Christians. It is rare to find a Young Earth Creationist making a case either for creationism or against evolution without doing so from a deliberately religious and, usually, fundamentalist Christian position.

Old Earth Creationism: Creationists Who Accept an Old Earth
Sometimes, special creationism accepts the existence of an 'old earth,' such that an ancient earth is accepted, but not evolution itself. This requires rejecting a completely literal interpretation of Genesis, but not abandoning it wholly and not simply reading it as metaphorical in the manner of Theistic Evolutionists.

Theistic Evolution & Evolutionary Creationism: Combining Evolution & Creationism
Theistic evolutionists vary in how they believe their god intervened in the evolutionary process because those beliefs are connected to subtle details of other theological positions. They accept modern science on the fact that evolution occurs and how it occurs, but they rely on their god to explain things currently unexplained by science (like the origin of life) or outside the purview of science (like the origin of the soul).

Flat Earthers & Geocentrists: Are Geocentrism & Flat Earth Beliefs Creationist?
Flat Earthers and Geocentrists are two groups which are sometimes put together because of their extreme views. Neither group is very large anymore, although they were more common in the past. They don't have much influence in modern society, but the mere fact that they continue to exist is interesting in itself.