creationismn.
/krɪˈeɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /krɪˈeɪʃənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /kriˈeɪʃəˌnɪzəm/ 1. Theology. The theory that God creates a soul for every human being at conception or birth. Opposed to traducianism.
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creationism1840
1840 R. Emerson tr. G. F. Wiggers Hist. Presentation Augustinism & Pelagianism xx. 281 In Ep. 166, Augustine sets forth minutely and strongly the difficulties that lie in creationism [Ger. Creatianismus], particularly in regard to original sin, which he considered as immovable.
1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. iii. 102 The other and more generally received doctrine is known as Creationism. Each soul is an immediate work of the Creator.
1921 Harvard Theol. Rev. 14 9 Theologically put, Creationism excludes the theory of Original Sin or of hereditary taint, and throws upon God..the responsibility of continuously creating imperfect..souls.
1988 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 56 350 The issue..is whether each soul is created fresh..or whether it is transmitted along with the material stuff contributed by human parents..—creationism vs. so-called traducianism.
2. The belief that humankind and all kinds of living organism, or, more widely, the earth and the physical universe generally, originated in specific acts of divine creation as related in the Bible or other sacred book rather than by natural processes as described by science, in particular evolution. Cf. creation science n. at creation n. Compounds, intelligent design n., evolutionism n. (a).
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the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of origin or development of life
epigenesis1653
intelligent design1816
vitalism1822
ovarism1857
panspermy1857
creationism1860
monadism1860
nomogeny1868
thaumatogeny1868
biogenesis1870
panspermism1870
biogeny1871
polygenesis1871
panspermatism1874
monism1880
ovism1892
neo-vitalism1895
creation science1970
1860 Rambler Mar. 370 He [sc. Darwin] talks as if some extra-scientific, unknown, and arbitrary creationism was the only antagonist to his natural selection.
1880 A. Gray Nat. Sci. & Relig. 89 The true issue as regards design is not between Darwinism and direct Creationism.
1921 A. S. Crapsey Ways of Gods (ed. 2) xxiii. 113 The war is raging between the archaic theory of generative evolution and the later theory of creationism.
1925 D. Drake Mind & its Place in Nature iii. 44 The point is this: if creationism is true, why does everything look as if evolution were true?
1988 A. M. Silverstein Hist. Immunol. v. 92 The later concept of creationism..maintains that each form of plant or animal life is unique and specific and persists unchanged.
1994 M. Moosa Early Novels of Naguib Mahfouz iv. 218 How does he reconcile it with the Quranic doctrine of creationism (already stated in the Old Testament)?
2005 New Yorker 5 Dec. 75/2 As evolution began returning to the classroom, fundamentalists regrouped, this time under the banner of ‘scientific’ creationism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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