[ noun ] the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis <noun.cognition> creationism denies the theory of evolution of species
Creationism \Cre*a"tion*ism\ (-?z'm), n. The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
Unless, perhaps, creationism was among the other questionable ideas he picked up in Jimmy Carter's administration.
The editor asked if Mims accepted Darwin's theory of evolution, Mims said. "I replied that I did not." Later, he said, the editor warned him he would be fired or docked in pay if he "ever wrote anything about creationism for any magazine."
In 1981, lawmakers passed a law requiring schoolteachers who teach Darwin's theory of evolution to also teach "scientific creationism," an alternative theory that mankind was created and didn't evolve from lower animals.
"Others in the state" are teaching creationism, says Mr. Hedtke, the St. Cloud biology teacher, "but I don't know how many."
A federal appeals court in New Orleans says creationism is a religious theory and teaching it unconstitutionally promotes religion in the classroom.
They said they only teach Biblical creationism." Douglas, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons and Darren McGavin star in the new two-hour production of "Inherit the Wind."
In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as science as well.
Last December, the local school board ordered him to leave his creationism ideas at home.
Federal courts found scientific creationism more religious than scientific and said public schools shouldn't be forced to give it equal time.