Progressive creation

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Progressive creation is a form of old earth creationism proposed as an attempt to find a middle ground between scientific fact and Biblical creationism. It holds that the world is billions of years old, and that the universe began with the Big Bang, but that the entire process was controlled by God, who had a direct and active role in the whole affair. This is different from theistic evolution because in progressive creation God explicitly creates many of the new forms, rather than allowing them to develop through evolution. In particular, in progressive creation, God came down and took two hominids and literally breathed a soul into them, to create Adam and Eve.

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[edit] Creationist backlash

Real creationists have been treating this as the worst assault on Christianity ever created, as a Trojan Horse of evolution. Most of the criticism comes from a theological perspective rather than a scientific one. The usual perspective on the "Fall of Man" is that it introduced spiritual death into the world, as distinct from physical death. YECs, on the other hand, do not make this distinction, claiming that there was no physical death before the Fall (which leaves them in a bit of a tricky position when it comes to creatures like venomous snakes).

Progressive creationists accept that there was physical death prior to the Fall, which to YECs is tantamount to believing that death and suffering are not explicitly the fault of humanity, hence that the mission of Jesus to redeem the world is unnecessary. As they find this unacceptable, so do they condemn progressive creation.

Creationists also claim that progressive creation contradicts "science," but they never bother to explain that part. Instead, they just castigate progressive creationists for wanting to fit in with the "world", using that particular fundamentalist definition of the word to mean "all that is evil and wicked" and disagrees with them.

[edit] Reasons to Believe

The only modern day progressive creationists are those who belong to the Reasons to Believe group, a progressive creationist think-tank owned by Hugh Ross.[1] Another creationist Fazale Rana also belongs to the group however their claims on creation have been dismissed by the scientific community as pseudoscience.

[edit] Rationalist backlash

"Oh, the usual creationist bollocks. Any good quotes for FSTDT?"

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