Does anyone know who is responsible for coining the word “creationism”—?? It wasn’t by any chance Karl Marx, was it? Like, maybe the same day he invented the word “capitalism”—??
I’m 61, have believed in God my entire life, live in a nation BASED on God’s existence and teachings, and yet I have never thought of myself as a “creationist.” It’s not a word I would ever speak out loud.
“Creationism.” I could see living out the days remaining to me and never again using this word.
The article identified another 38% who believe - as I do myself - in Intelligent Design, or non-random Evolution. As I understand it Creationism centers about the concept of a young-earth: whereas ID is about evolution in a 4.5 billion year old Earth not being random, but the work of God.
I hazard a guess that you belong to one of these two schools of thought. Taken together that’s ~80% of the population who have a God-centered view of creation. That’s got to stick in the Marxists’ collective craw.
The term creationism is deliberately misleading.
It’s become a pejorative like “truther” short for “9-11 trufer”.
EVERYONE has a belief or theory of how the universe came to be (whether they subscribe to the theory they lean towards most at 100% or not).
There are scientists and atheists who’s creation STORY is “there was nothing, and then suddenly everything spawned forth from a single point”.
That’s still a story of creation. It may be true. It may not be. It may be partially correct.
Anyone who believes there is a God (whether they be Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, etc) pretty much holds a views at some level that God created the universe. The stories may vary but that is a basic principle held. If God did not make anything, then God has no authority over man anymore than a badger has authority over an eagle. We are all equals. Then there are the Giaist pagans who believe in a “creator” but that man was just another animal and that we “owe God one” because “she” made the planet we all share.
And if God didn’t make any of this, (A) did God(s) spring forth from the Big Bang, or (B) was God suprised by the sudden turn of events when from “almost” nothing (God existed, possibly by some beliefs) came everything?
Each one of those rabbit holes is a different story of creation. But to the MSM, there is only one “creation” belief and that is God made man and woman 6,000-10,000 years ago along with dinosaurs and and and.