For example, a defender of evolution may well accept that the current formulation of evolutionary theory is likely to be revised in the future, but she defends evolution because she believes current evolutionary theory is more likely than any current rival idea, such as Creationism.

Creationism is based on the idea of a poem as a truly new thing, created by the author for the sake of itself — that is, not to praise another thing, not to please the reader, not even to be understood by its own author.

Emanationism is a transcendent principle from which everything is derived, and is opposed to both Creationism ( wherein the universe is created by a sentient God who is separate from creation ) and materialism ( which posits no underlying subjective and / or ontological nature behind phenomena being immanent ).

His book Scientific Creationism ( 1974 and 1984 ), according to Herman Kirkpatrick, " is not very convincing evidence to support the recent creation of the earth ".

Those ascribing to Creationism ex nihilo ( that is, creation from nothing ) challenged these arguments for eternity, and held instead that God created the universe, so that the universe had a definite beginning in time.

He upholds the theory of Creationism ( i. e., that a soul is specially created for each human being ).

During the first few years of its existence, different beliefs about Creationism and disagreement over its statement of beliefs resulted in various members of the board and voting members being forced out of the organization.

However, early into his term he became Minister of Education instead, replacing Shulamit Aloni who was forced to resign from office under pressure from religious factors, following statements she had made about teaching Evolution versus Creationism.

Today it has formally incorporated flood geology into their ' Deed of Trust ' ( which all officers were required to sign ) and condemned Gap and Day-Age Creationism as unscriptural.

* The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream Chapter 1 of the book Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics by Barbara Forrest, Ph. D. MIT Press, 2001

* The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream Chapter 1 of the book Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics by Barbara Forrest, Ph. D. MIT Press, 2001

* Wedging Creationism into the Academy.

" Though commenting that experiments in a controlled environment were limited as " we cannot haul 10, 000 generations into the laboratory ", he does not endorse Young Earth Creationism or intelligent design.

Scriptural literalism ( specifically Creationism and some forms of Biblical archaeology ) is a related ideology, but strictly the reverse process of aligning scientific observation with scriptural reading rather than aligning scriptural reading with scientific observation.

John Bellamy Foster asserts that historical materialism is important in explaining history from a scientific perspective, by following the scientific method, as opposed to belief-system theories like Creationism and Intelligent Design, which do not base their beliefs on verifiable facts and hypotheses.

In 1974, Young Earth Creationist Henry M. Morris introduced a similar concept in his book Scientific Creationism in which he wrote ; " This issue can actually be attacked quantitatively, using simple principles of mathematical probability.

* Numbers, Ronald L., The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, 2nd ed., 2006.

He is the author of over 75 scientific papers and 6 books including Evolution and the Myth of Creationism published by Stanford University Press in 1990.

Ussher's work is sometimes associated with Young Earth Creationism, which holds that the universe was created, not billions of years ago, but thousands.

( Creationism in Twentieth-Century America: A Ten-Volume Anthology of Documents, 1903-1961.

: How to Make Even More Money Off of Creationism, Evolution, Environmentalism, Fringe Politics, Weird Science, the Occult, and Other Strange Beliefs.

Worlds of Their Own — A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair, Xlibris, ISBN 978-1-4363-0435-1, Part I.

Also, Robert T. Pennock Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism .</ ref >

Others see intervention at critical intervals in history in a way consistent with scientific explanations of speciation, but with similarities to the ideas of Progressive Creationism that God created " kinds " of animals sequentially.

Her book Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction was published by Greenwood Press in 2004 and then in paperback by the University of California Press in 2005.

* Edwards v. Aguillard, a 1987 U. S. Supreme Court ruling on teaching Creationism in Louisiana

He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo (" Creationism "), which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.

An example of this is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which parodies the equal time argument employed by intelligent design Creationism.

* Pastafarianism, or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a parody of intelligent design Creationism, and religion in general as a modern version of Russell's teapot.

Not wanting to be perceived as supporting Creationism, which is universally regarded as unscientific, Scientific American fired Mims.

In Modernism several currents appear: Parnasianism, Symbolism, Futurism, and Creationism.

The group is characterized by a long list of in-crowd jokes like the fictitious University of Ediacara, the equally fictitious Evil Atheist Conspiracy which allegedly hides all the evidence supporting Creationism, a monthly election of the Chez Watt-award for " statements that make you go ' say what ', or some such.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

In the earlier work of Marx, however, the idea of creative destruction or annihilation ( German: Vernichtung ) implies not only that capitalism destroys and reconfigures previous economic orders, but also that it must ceaselessly devalue existing wealth ( whether through war, dereliction, or regular and periodic economic crises ) in order to clear the ground for the creation of new wealth.

The idea of an alien being absorbing energy is similar to both the Marvel Comics character Galactus, who drains energy from other worlds to survive, and the giant space ship from the Star Trek episode " The Doomsday Machine " which destroys planets and uses them to fuel itself, though predating both by almost ten years.

The creature approaches Frankenstein and begs him to create a female companion for him ; Frankenstein agrees, but ultimately destroys this creation, aghast at the idea of a race of monsters.

“ United with Shakti, Siva is endowed with power to create ; or otherwise, he is incapable even of movement .” The same idea is brought out in verse 24, “ Brahma creates the universe, Vishnu sustains, Rudra destroys, and Maheswara absorbs every thing and assimilates into Sadashiva.

" This had unpleasant aspects, and destroys once and for all the idea that circumstances in earliest Chistianity were pure and ideal.

While they are free to attend Mass without conditions, they may receive Holy Communion only if they are in a state of grace ( free from unconfessed mortal sin, which destroys the supernatural life of charity within the soul ) and if they observe the prescribed pre-Communion fast, which for Latin Rite Catholics is one hour before the reception of Holy Communion.

Despite many assassination attempts on the protagonist's life by other demons working behind the scenes, the player destroys Gandhar with supernatural weaponry.

For the Scoobies, her death destroys the illusion that normal life is trouble-free ; it is just as challenging as encountering supernatural forces.