Sentences with phrase «literal creationism»

Some people are dogmatic about the bible (i.e. interpret from it literal creationism) and brook no dissent and be intolerant of people that do not interpret the bible in the way that they do.

Lastly, regardless of absolute dating, the relative positions of fossils clearly show a progressive order which confounds literal creationism, i.e. this order simply can not be explained by the various «flood geology» models.

I don't believe Mr. Nye is addressing divine - guided evolution, only literal creationism.

Literal creationism is right; all other positions are wrong.

What I'm reading in the distinction between ID and literal creationism is a «No True Scotsman» fallacy, i.e. who is and isn't a «true» bible - believing Christian.

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The concept that a god or gods had a hand in the development of the universe and life can not be disproven, but creationism, the literal interpretation of Genesis, can be and has been disproven by geology, astrophysics, biology, etc..

Augustine of Hippo, arguably the most influential theologian to ever live and the theologian that a majority of modern Christian theology has been influenced by, did not hold to literal six - day creationism.

Creationism means believing in a literal 6 day creation, believing that the words in the Bible were written in English and the term day was used (it wasn't but that's another argument), and a young 6000 — 10000 year old Earth.

I'm willing to concede that it's possible that evolution is completely wrong, that literal genesis creationism is potentially correct, that the biblical deity is possibly the one true god.

@Ken, Bill Nye is, I think, talking about Young Earth Creationism, which is a belief in a strict literal interpretation of Genesis, which is inconsistent with the evidence we have available.

Creationism (as in the term) is the rejection of Evolution in favor of the literal bible translation.

The museum presents the case for Young Earth creationism, following what it says is a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis, which says the Earth was created by God in six days less than 10,000 years ago.

My parents never really pushed young earth creationism on me nor taught that it was a fundamental element of the Christian faith, but for most of my life I travelled in circles where it was assumed that good Christians embraced a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2, which describes the earth as being created in six days.

The point is that the literal interpretation of «intelligent design» could be very far from creationism ala the bible.