Sunday, 22 April 2007
doneby: XianMin
Creation Science (Young Earth version
This theory states that God created the universe less than 10,000 years ago, in 6 consecutive 24-hour, resting on the seventh day. God created all animals, which were once in existence (for e.g. dinosaurs) and those that are in existence today in the six days alone. Also, many features of the Earth that we see today -- ranging from fossil-laden layers of rock, the mountain ranges, strings of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes, the Grand Canyon, etc. were formed during the great flood of Noah.
This belief is based on the bible, which is understood and interpreted literally the believers. Genesis contains two stories which describe the creation of the world, the rest of the universe, and all of the forms of life, including humans. The first story is found in Genesis 1:1 to 2:3; the second in Genesis 2.4 to 2:25.
The Bible (Genesis 1)
And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky." 21So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." 23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
These beliefs are held mainly by people who interpret the Bible literally, regard the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures as inspired by God, and inerrant.
Response from the Scientific Community:
These beliefs are held mainly by people who interpret the Bible literally, regard the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures as inspired by God, and inerrant.
Response from the Scientific Community:
Young Earth creationism is regarded as pseudoscience by mainstream scientists and thus, has no major impact on modern science. These beliefs are based on evidence from geology, anthropology, paleontology, nuclear physics, astronomy, cosmology and many other sciences, which show that the Earth and the rest of the universe have been in existence far longer than 10,000 years. In excess of 99% of earth & biological scientists believe in the theory of evolution and date the age of the earth at about 4.5 billion years ago, when the surface crust of the earth formed. Also, observation of nature shows that all living organisms did not appear in Earth at approximately the same time. Simple life appeared first, then evolved into more complex life forms. Yet the idea of Young Earth Creation Science affects science education, almost solely in the United States, where periodic controversies have raged over the aptness of teaching Young Earth creationist doctrine and creation science in public schools.