Creationism
"Virtually every discipline and endeavour is presently under a naturalistic pall. To lift that pall will require a new generation of scholars and professionals who explicitly reject naturalism and consciously seek to understand the design that God has placed in the world,"
~William A. Dembski. 1999. Intelligent Design. Downers Grove, Ilinois: InterVarsity Press, 1999. pp. 120-121.
Below, you will find links to articles discussing anti-science claims made by creationists, including their attempts to erect an inaccurate divide between mainstream religion and evolutionary science. For more information on the sciences being attacked please see the science section.
For the purposes of clarity, the BCSE uses this broad defintion of creationism as a starting position: Creationism is the belief that humanity, life, the Earth, or the universe as a whole was specially created by a supreme being or by other forms of supernatural intervention.
Creationism has a long and varied history. It also has a number of forms found in many theistic beliefs. The BCSE focuses on the form of creationism specifically associated with the brand of conservative fundamentalism which rejects various aspects of evolution and cosmology and other natural sciences, because it is this movement which is repeatedly attacking the teaching of science in educational environments both in the USA and increasingly in the UK and mainland Europe. When you read the term creationism on this website, it is referencing the latter form.
All through this section, and indeed the website, please bear in mind the following advice: gods are as real as atheism or any other ideological practice - that is
to say, they are embedded in social practices.
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