Young earth creationism
Young earth creationism is a claim regarding the origin of earth and organisms. Young earth creationism accepts the general principle of Biblical creationism, that God created the earth and organisms, according to the book of Genesis in the Bible. Its distinctive belief, however, is that the Young earth creationism interprets the Biblical chronology as implying that the earth is only approximately 6000 years old. The belief of young earth creationism is often held by some Christian fundamentalists.
Proponents
Notable proponents of young earth creationism in the scientific community include Raymond V. Damadian, the inventor of magnetic resonance imaging, and John R. Baumgardner, a prominent geophysicist, among others.[1]
Acceptance
Generally, though some individual scientists believe in young earth creationism, the scientific community as a whole does not. Creationists who believe in the old earth creationism also rejects the assertion that the earth is only approximately 6000 years old. There are allegations that some scientific institutions have deliberately censored evidence supporting young earth creationism.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory deleted ten papers by Dr Robert V. Gentry, a creationist and nuclear physicist.[2] Gentry's lawsuit alleging religious discrimination and censorship[3] was dismissed on a technicality in 2004.[4]
References
Citations
- ↑ List of Creation Scientists
- ↑ The Orion Foundation: 'Ten Scientific Papers Censored.'
- ↑ Creationists.org: 'Dr. Robert Gentry, World renowned Nuclear Physicist files lawsuit over alleged censorship of scientific evidence against the Big Bang theory.'
- ↑ Nature.com: 'Retribution denied to creationist suing arXiv over religious bias.' 1st April 2004.