English word senses marked with topical category "Creationism"

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Total 71 word senses

• AiG (Proper name) Initialism of Answers in Genesis.
• Allism (Noun) The rejection of creationism in all its forms (including intelligent design) and the assertion that evolution alone is responsible for the diversity of all living creatures.
• ICR (Proper name) Initialism of Institute for Creation Research.
• IDiot (Noun) A proponent of intelligent design.
• Old Earth creationism (Noun) The belief that God created the universe and the Earth very long ago and that the universe and the Earth are as old as scientists have proven.
• Old Earth creationist (Noun) A proponent of Old Earth creationism.
• Omphalos hypothesis (Proper name) The proposition that God created the universe within the past few thousands of years but also introduced false evidence that the universe is of great age.
• Young Earth creationism (Proper name) Belief that the universe and the Earth are 6,000 to 10,000 years old as inferred from a literal interpretation of the creation narrative in Genesis.
• Young Earth creationist (Noun) A proponent of Young Earth creationism.
• abrupt appearance theory (Noun) A neo-creationist hypothesis which claims that the first life and the universe appeared abruptly, and that plants and animals appeared abruptly in complex form.
• anticreationism (Noun) Opposition to creationism.
• anticreationist (Adjective) Against creationism.
• apobaramin (Noun) A group of similar holobaramins.
• apobaraminic (Adjective) Of or relating to an apobaramin.
• archaebaramin (Noun) A group of the originally created members of a baramin.
• baramin (Noun) A set of organisms descended from some originally created species (based on the Biblical doctrine of Special Creation); a kind.
• baraminic (Adjective) Of or relating to a baramin.
• baraminological (Adjective) Of or pertaining to baraminology.
• baraminologically (Adverb) In a baraminological manner.
• baraminologist (Noun) One who practices baraminology.
• c-decay (Noun) The discredited theory that the speed of light has decreased over time, proposed by creationists in order to support the belief that the universe is a few thousand years old even though there are objects visible today that are billions of light years away (whereas a constant speed of light would indicate that the universe is billions of years old and so contradict this belief).
• cdesign proponentsist (Noun) A creationist.
• creatard (Noun) A creationist.
• creation science (Noun) The creation story found in Genesis in the Bible or the Qur'an, presented by fundamentalists as if it were a literal scientific truth.
• creation scientist (Noun) Someone who studies and advocates creation science.
• creationism (Noun) The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
• creationist (Noun) A proponent or supporter of creationism.
• creationist (Adjective) Of or relating to creationism.
• creationist orchard (Noun) A diagram referenced by Christian creationists that illustrates the alleged origins of multiple unrelated created kinds of species.
• creationistic (Adjective) Of or pertaining to creationism.
• creo (Noun) Clipping of creationist.
• creo (Adjective) Clipping of creationist.
• day-age (Adjective) Of or related to day-age creationism.
• day-age creationism (Noun) A type of Old Earth creationism which posits that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not ordinary 24-hour days, but are much longer periods (from thousands to billions of years).
• day-age creationist (Adjective) Of or related to day-age creationism.
• day-age creationist (Noun) A proponent of day-age creationism.
• day-ager (Noun) A day-age creationist; a proponent of day-age creationism.
• discontinuity systematics (Noun) Synonym of baraminology
• evo-creo (Noun) Clipping of evolution-creationism.
• evo-creo (Adjective) Clipping of evolution-creationism.
• evolution of the gaps (Proper name) Evolution, when used as an explanation for anything that is yet unexplained by science.
• evolutionary creationist (Noun) A proponent of evolutionary creationism; someone who believes in theistic evolution.
• flooddidit (Interjection) A sarcastic assertion that something that has not been satisfactorily explained by science is therefore evidence of the Biblical Flood as described in the book of Genesis.
• gap creationism (Noun) A type of Old Earth creationism which posits that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are literal 24-hour days, but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and the second verses of Genesis. The hypothesis states that this explains many scientific observations, including the age of the Earth.
• gap creationist (Noun) A proponent of gap creationism.
• gap theorist (Noun) Synonym of gap creationist
• gap theory (Noun) Synonym of gap creationism
• gappist (Noun) A proponent of gap creationism.
• holobaramin (Noun) A grouping of all organisms believed to be genetically related to each other in baraminology.
• holobaraminic (Adjective) Of or relating to a holobaramin.
• intelligent design (Noun) The belief that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by an intelligent agent (specified or unspecified) rather than being the result of undirected natural processes.
• intelligent designer (Noun) A proponent of the intelligent design hypothesis.
• monobaramin (Noun) Part or all of a holobaramin; a group of organisms believed to be related to by common descent in baraminology.
• monobaraminic (Adjective) Of or relating to a monobaramin.
• neo-creationism (Noun) A pseudoscientific movement which attempts to reframe Christian creationism in more scientific terms, rather than citing Biblical scripture to support their claims.
• neo-creationist (Noun) A proponent of neo-creationism.
• neo-creo (Noun) Clipping of neo-creationist.
• neo-creo (Adjective) Clipping of neo-creationist.
• neobaramin (Noun) A group of the currently alive members of a baramin.
• paleobaramin (Noun) A group of older, now deceased members of a holobaramin.
• polybaramin (Noun) A grouping of organisms that belong to different holobaramins.
• polybaraminic (Adjective) Of or relating to a polybaramin.
• procreationist (Noun) Someone who supports creationism.
• progressive creationism (Noun) A type of Old Earth creationism which posits that God created new forms of life gradually over a period of hundreds of millions of years.
• progressive creationist (Adjective) Of or related to progressive creationism.
• progressive creationist (Noun) A proponent of progressive creationism.
• special creation (Noun) In creationism, a theological doctrine which asserts that the origin of the universe and all life in it suddenly sprang into being by unconditional fiat or divine decree.
• starlight problem (Proper name) The conflict between Young Earth creationism (asserting that the universe is thousands of years old) and the starlight-related measurements that show the universe to be billions of years old.
• teach the controversy (Verb) To teach that life forms may have been created (almost) in their current form by a sentient being in a manner consistent with Christian dogmata, rather than as a result of ordinary evolution, and that the theory of evolution is controversial.
• theistic evolution (Noun) Evolution guided by God.
• theistic evolutionist (Noun) A proponent of theistic evolution.

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