Talk:creationism
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"The creationary beliefs of Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism or Islam." "The theological controversy concerning the origin of the human species, and other living beings, and especially questioning in what sense if any the creationary acts of God are considered a matter of historical fact." "The subject of a debate concerning origins and the findings of science, focused on the degree to which the theory of evolution is compatible with religious belief in the Creator."
The three above senses seem superfluous to me. How are they different from sense #2 ("Any creationary belief...")? Korodzik 20:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, there are too many senses. The second definition above doesn't make sense as a definition of an "ism". Perhaps confusion is so rampant that it would be attestable. The unchallenged oldest sense is of little current interest outside its narrow context. The 1880 quote I added is apparently the first use in a modern sense in English. If so, the term was born of the controversy stirred by Darwinism and the discoveries of geological time. Thus it is most especially about the Christian flavor of some broader definition of creationism. I have added a sense which is intended to reflect the meaning in at least the early stages of the controversy and the most common current meaning (IMO). Frankly, though I am sure it would be attestable, the broader definition of creationism across all monotheistic religions doesn't seem to be very common at all, except in comparative religion courses. That is the definition into which you would fold the others. I believe it to be an abstraction from the Christianity-focused sense.
- Are there major controversies in Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism that involve the use of the English word creationism or for which commentators writing in English use the word creationism? Or is such a sense only justified as a translation target? DCDuring TALK 23:38, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
RFV failed, senses removed. Though this really seems like more of an RFD question. —RuakhTALK 01:16, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
creatianism seems to be a word too (despite its removal from the Collins Scrabble word list a few years back), and can be found in plenty of books in Google Books, sometimes contrasted with traducianism. Any ideas on what it means? Equinox ◑ 11:56, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
- Creatianism is definitely a word. creatianism is the doctrine that God creates a soul for each body that is generated (the opposite of traducianism, where the soul is inherited from a parent). Relates to hereditary sin. —Stephen (Talk) 13:38, 24 May 2015 (UTC)