What are the main ideas in Creationism?

The principle idea behind creationism is that the origin of natural objects is supernatural. As an example, the Judo/Christian tradition is that the land, sky, plants and animals were "created" by a supernatural being called Yahwey.

Within this basic idea are themes are variations; some cultures believe that plants and animal species are unchanging, others believe that different species can arise from existing species but the "original" species were put into being in a supernatural way. Some think the creation event happened very recently - within historical times - others place the event in "deep" time; thousands of millions of years before the present era (BPE).

Many cultures and religions have creation myths; IMHO, the Hindu one is particularly beautiful and places the creation date of the Earth not that far from the date which has been calculated from radioactive and Sun formation theory dates.

As you can see from the opinions below, some people have passionate (although not necessarily seriously thought out) feelings about this. It should be emphasized that amongst the scientific community it really is only a tiny minority who consider a supernatural solution at all plausable.

Answer

Ultimately, it is a literal interpretation of a particular Creation Myth, of which there are dozens, depending on the culture. As far as reasoning and evidence are concerned, there are no "main ideas". Creationism stems purely from an ignorance of modern science.

Opinion

The Main Ideas in Creationism are that God Created The Heavens and The Earth ( We did not come from organisms or monkeys BECAUSE WE DIDN'T!). Also, that God sent his son Jesus to earth to teach and love the people and then to die on the Cross for all the sins of all people. According to the teachings of Paul in the bible, those who accept this as true and give their Life to Him will spend eternal life in heaven and those who do not will spend their eternity in Hell.

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