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Gap creationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or "the Gap Theory") is a form of old Earth creationism that posits that the six-yom creation period, as described in the Book of Genesis, involved six literal 24-hour days (light being "day" and dark "night" as God specified), but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and the second verses of Genesis, which the theory states explains many scientific observations, including the age of the Earth.[1][2][3] It differs from day-age creationism, which posits that the 'days' of creation were much longer periods (of thousands or millions of years), and from young Earth creationism, which although it agrees concerning the six literal 24-hour days of creation, does not posit any gap of time.
^Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, Eugenie Scott, pp61-62
^The Scientific Case Against Scientific Creationism, Jon P. Alston, p24
Gapcreationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or "the Gap Theory") is a form of old Earth creationism that posits...
Earth creationism itself comes in at least three types: Gapcreationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or the Gap Theory)...
creationism (OEC) is an umbrella of theological views encompassing certain varieties of creationism which may or can include day-age creationism, gap...
Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that the Earth and its lifeforms were created by supernatural acts...
good science education, with the politics of creationism primarily focusing on the teaching of creationism in public education. Among majority-Christian...
theories propounded by George McCready Price (young Earth creationism) and Harry Rimmer (gapcreationism), and it was soon moving rapidly in the direction of...
vs. Creationism: An Introduction, Eugenie Scott, pp61-62 The Scientific Case Against Scientific Creationism, Jon P. Alston, p24 "What is Creationism?"....
of creation. Day-age creationism Yom is time span. Progressive creationism Yom is time span, but there are gaps of time. Evolutionary creationism (or...
resorting to religious creationism or logical contradiction. The intelligent design movement is a direct outgrowth of the creationism of the 1980s. The scientific...
is the upper waters, above which further still is the divine abode. The gap between heaven and Earth was bridged by ziggurats and these supported stairways...
20th century the word "creationism" became associated with the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s and young Earth creationism, but this usage was contested...
idea that there was a separate creation in v. 1 that was destroyed and that a new creation is initiated in v. 2. This Gap Theory (or Ruin and Reconstruction...
liberation is attained. Hindu creationism also known as Vedic creationism is a type of religious old earth creationism. Historian of science Ronald Numbers...
advocate of gapcreationism. Hitchcock saw God as the agent of change. He explicitly rejected evolution and a religious six-day creation. He believed...
teach creationism]. Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Grupo Folha. Retrieved 2014-06-15. MacKenzie, Debora (July 9, 2005). "Creationism special:...
Creatio ex nihilo (Latin for "creation out of nothing") is the doctrine that matter is not eternal but had to be created by some divine creative act. It...
Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Jehovah's Witnesses produce gapcreationism and day-age creationism literature to refute evolution but reject the "creationist"...
Canadian physiologist and writer, best known for his advocation of gapcreationism. Custance was born in Norfolk, England. He received his early education...
produce a greatly expanded edition of 1920. Larkin was an advocate of gapcreationism. Larkin's first major publication was dispensational Truth (or God's...
Vs. Creationism that it is a type of evolution rather than creationism, despite its name. "From a scientific point of view, evolutionary creationism is...
the teaching of creationism was unconstitutional. The Creation Research Society Quarterly has been published since July, 1964. Creation Matters containing...
In creationism, a religious view based on a literal reading of the Book of Genesis and other biblical texts, created kinds are purported to be the original...
the Talmud and in other midrashim. The first chapters of Genesis, on the creation of the world and of man, furnished especially rich material for this mode...
Creation science or scientific creationism is a pseudoscientific form of Young Earth creationism which claims to offer scientific arguments for certain...
In creationism, special creation is a belief that the universe and all life in it originated in its present form by fiat or divine decree. Catholicism...
Pine Gap is a joint United States-Australian satellite intelligence gathering and signals intelligence surveillance base and Australian Earth station...
books have been translated into English. Kurtz was an advocate of gapcreationism. The Bible and astronomy (Internet Archive) Manual of sacred history...
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