CREATIONISM IN THE NETHERLANDS

The evolution of creationism

For centuries, natural philosophers, their scientific successors, and theologians alike sought to explain the physical and natural world. The now common cultural narrative of perpetual conflict between science and religion simplifies the arguments and struggles of the past and overlooks cross-pollination between those who embraced faith and reason as the keys to understanding earth history. Whe...

The latest face of creationism.

The “Creationism vs. Evolution” Debate

For example, evolution states that at one point in time, a strain of fish began encountering mutations in its DNA, which eventually (after many generations) gave its descendants the ability to breathe air and to move around on the earth. As a result, those mutations caused that strain of fish to become frogs. Similarly, at some later point in time, a strain of frogs began encountering mutations...

Creationism and the age of the Earth.

Science serves its readers as a forum for the presentaFor n tion and discussion of important issues related to the coexistc advancement of science, including the presentation of minority or conflicting points of view, rather than by ly the v publishing only material on which a consensus has been with a,m reached. Accordingly, all articles published in Science-including editorials, news and comm...

Tough stand on creationism

British biologists look worryingly at the developments on the issue of creationism and intelligent design in the US, where constant pressure from powerful conservative Christian groups seeks to continue to set a scientific alternative to evolution. There is wider support for evolutionary theory in the UK, but creationists are pushing their agenda there: lavish textbooks have been sent to school...