The evolution-creationism debate deals with attempts to explain the ultimate causes of order in the living world. Some people think that order arose from natural evolutionary causes. Others think it arose from divine creative intelligence. A third...

The creation-evolution controversy (also termed the creation vs. evolution debate or the origins debate) is a recurring political dispute about the origins of the Earth, humanity, life, and the universe,[1] between those who espouse the validity and...

The debate over evolution versus creationism is hardly new. Charles Darwin's (1874; 1881) major works outlining the theory of evolution created an intellectual firestorm when they were introduced. As his ideas have percolated into broader, general knowledge and acceptance, these controversies have rekindled. Perhaps...

The Creation/Evolution Controversy: A Battle for Cultural Power. By Kary Doyle Smout. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. 205 pp. $55.00. Kary Doyle Smout, using a poststructuralist perspective, analyzes a number of the major debates dealing with the creationist and evolutionist approaches. Smout analyzes...

" Creationism is the doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed." "Evolution is the continuous genetic adaptation of organisms or species to the...

Creationism is based on miracles while evolution is based on solid evidence. Teaching evolution in schools does not undermine the existence of a high being because teachers simply present facts, they do not force kids to believe in their personal beliefs.

Contains facts supporting evolution over creationism concerning how everything came into existence.

In the history of science vs. religion there has been no issues more intensely debated than evolution vs. creationism. Human creation breaks down into three simple beliefs; creation theory, naturalistic evolution theory, and theistic evolution theory. The complexities of all three sides create a dilemma for what theory to support among all people, religious and non-religious.