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creation science en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The creation story found in Genesis in the Bible or the Qur'an, presented by fundamentalists as if it were a literal scientific truth.
    • The case of creation science vis-a-vis theory of evolution, 'Islamic science' (Koran being the source of all scientific knowledge) […] 2006, Ram Puniyani, Contours of Hindu Rashtra, page 321:
    • […] the inspired writings, be they the Torah, the Qur'an, or the Bible, are interpreted by some in these traditions as providing literal descriptions of all aspects of reality […] Based upon this assumption the idea of creation science was born. 2003, Ted Peters, Bridging Science and Religion, page 76:
    • […] fundamentalist religious believers who look to religious texts (be it the Bible or the Qur'an) to espouse a so-called creation science […]. 2013, Kostas Kamourakis, The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators, page 182:

Deriveds

creation scientist

Synonyms

scientific creationism