The Creation

Creationism and scientific naturalism

We aren’t going to spend a lot of time on this but it always comes up.

Creationism is the belief that God is the creator of all things in the universe, that there was a beginning where God spoke and everything came into existence. That everything we see owes its praise to God because without Him it would not exist. Specifically, the God of the Bible. Not the God of any other religion, but the all-powerful, all-wise God who spoke to His people through His Word.

-To believe in creationism does not mean you need to believe the the world was created in a certain amount of time, or in a certain way. It just means that you believe that God was the one who has created everything. There are in fact a lot of views that would fall under this. Those who believe in a literal 7 days of creation and that the earth is about 10,000 years old but made it with the appearance of age. Those who believe that God created the universe billions of years ago and then put animals and mankind on it later on in creation. Then those who believe God used the process of evolution in order to create all things. All of these can fall under creationism.

-I think where biblical views stop is when you don’t believe in a literal Adam and Eve.

Then there is what would be considered scientific naturalism. This is the belief that the universe is an eternal and self-created. There is no transcendent being that created everything, and would in fact deny the existence of god, that in no part of the process of creation was God involved.

-Under this would fall the “Big Bang”, where some sort of “singularity” was the source of everything we see and exploded out into an expanding universe.

-With this would be an atheistic view of evolution, what would be called “macroevolution”