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cre·a·tion·ism (krê-â¹she-nîz´em) noun The position that the account of the creation of the universe given at the beginning of the Bible is literally true. — cre·a¹tion·ist adjective & noun Creationism is the theory that man, the earth, and the rest o ....

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.... 8:3-4) "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; what is man that you are mindful of him? And the son of man, that You visit him?" Creationism is the product of a literal interpretation of the Biblical story of Genesis. It holds that God created the world in a single act approximately 6,000 years ago--and that human beings, animals, and other forms of life exist today much as they did then. To many creationists, the theory of evolution is heresy. They argue that fossil records and other scientific evidence of evolution are either false or were themselves created by God. "In the beginn ....