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Creationism - National Center for Science Education

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INTRODUCTION<br />

TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

1. FUNDAMENTALISM AND SCIENCE<br />

Pre-Millennialism<br />

Protestant Scholasticism<br />

Common Sense Philosophy<br />

The Baconian-Newtonian Ideal of <strong>Science</strong><br />

Fact versus Theory<br />

Bible-<strong>Science</strong><br />

Propositional Nature of the Bible<br />

Literalism versus Inerrancy<br />

Perspicuity of the Bible<br />

<strong>Creationism</strong> as a Key Tenet of Fundamentalist Belief<br />

2. ORIGINS OF MODERN “SCIENTIFIC” CREATIONISM: 1900-1960<br />

George McCready Price<br />

W.B. Riley and Harry Rimmer<br />

Other Early Creationists<br />

Early Debates<br />

The Lull: 1940s-1950s<br />

Early Creationist Organizations<br />

3. THE MODERN CREATION-SCIENCE MOVEMENT<br />

Henry Morris; The American Scientific Affiliation<br />

Whitcomb and Morris’s Genesis Flood<br />

The Creation Research Society<br />

The Bible-<strong>Science</strong> Association<br />

The Cali<strong>for</strong>nia Textbook Disputes: 1969-1972<br />

The Creation-<strong>Science</strong> Research <strong>Center</strong><br />

The Geoscience Research Institute<br />

The Institute <strong>for</strong> Creation Research<br />

Other Active Creationist Groups and Leaders<br />

4. THEORETICAL ISSUES: SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND MORALITY<br />

Attitudes Towards the Relationship of Christianity and <strong>Science</strong><br />

Bible-<strong>Science</strong> Harmonizations Prior to the 1920s<br />

Fundamentalist Rejection of Compromise Harmonizations<br />

Nomothetic Creation and Final vs. Secondary Causation<br />

Presuppositions<br />

Fundamentalist Dichotomies<br />

Evolution as Man’s Escape from God<br />

Chance versus Purpose and Design<br />

Morality

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