nauka: Theistic evolution

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Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution, or alternatively called evolutionary creationism) is a view that God acts and creates through laws of nature. Here, God is taken as the primary cause while natural causes are secondary, positing that the concept of God and religious beliefs are compatible with the findings of modern science, including evolution. Theistic evolution is not in itself a scientific theory, but includes a range of views about how science relates to religious beliefs and the extent to which God intervenes. It rejects the strict creationist doctrines of special creation but can include beliefs such as creation of the human soul. Modern…

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In Christian theology, special creation is a term with varying meanings dependent on context. In creationism, the term refers to a belief that the universe and all life in it originated in its present form by fiat or divine decree. In Christianity, this is liturgically celebrated as the Feast of Creation. Catholicism uses the phrase "special creation" in two different senses: in the context of theistic evolution to refer to the "special creation of humans", a point of hominization where evolved near-human animals were given souls by God, and became fully human; this belief is also called special transformism by some scholars. to refer to the doctrine of immediate or special creation of each…

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Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification from a single common ancestor in a process driven by natural selection) initially met opposition from scientists with different theories, but eventually came to receive near-universal acceptance in the scientific community. The observation of evolutionary processes occurring (as well as the modern evolutionary synthesis explaining that evidence) has been uncontroversial among mainstream biologists since the 1940s. Since then, critic…

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Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism. Its central belief is that the Earth and the biosphere were created by various supernatural acts of the Abrahamic God between about 10,000 and 6,000 years ago, directly contradicting established scientific data that puts the age of Earth around 4.54 billion years. Events such as Noah's Flood are described as explaining much of the geological and fossil record. YEC is best described as a religious belief in the inerrancy of certain literal interpretations of the Book of Genesis. The largest young Earth creationist organizations are Answers in Genesis, Institute for Creation Research, and Creation Ministries International. This is in con…

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Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation, and is often pseudoscientific. In its broadest sense, creationism includes various religious views, which differ in their acceptance or rejection of modern scientific concepts, such as evolution, that describe the origin and development of natural phenomena. The term creationism most often refers to belief in special creation: the claim that the universe and lifeforms were created as they exist today by divine action, and that the only true explanations are those which are compatible with a Christian fundamentalist literal interpre…

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Recurring cultural, political, and theological rejection of evolution by religious groups exists regarding the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and of other life. In accordance with creationism, species were once widely believed to be fixed products of divine creation, but since the mid-19th century, evolution by natural selection has been established by the scientific community as a scientific fact. Any such debate is universally considered religious, not scientific, by professional scientific organizations worldwide: in the scientific community, evolution is accepted as fact, and efforts to sustain the traditional view are universally regarded as pseudoscience. While the controversy has…

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Evolution and Creation—A Response to Michael Chaberek's Critique of Theistic Evolution

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Conflation between knowledge and acceptance may contribute to the knowledge gap between Judeo-Christian and non-religious people.. This paper presents findings from two related studies investigating the relationship between evolution knowledge and various influencing factors, notably religious affiliation, religiosity, and evolution acceptance. Utilizing a nationwide survey study and a focused classroom study, we explored the differences in evolution knowledge agreement among individuals with different religious identifications. The nationwide study sampled 827 respondents from the United States, comprising those who identified with a Judeo-Christian religion and those who identified as agn…

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Why Does the Japanese Constitution Not Include the Creation of a Special Tribunal. Nowadays, it is observed that court systems of other countries are establishing new extraordinary tribunals such as environmental law court or intellectual property (IP) court. These specialized courts are presided by judges who have acquired special training and knowledge that renders them competent to deal with relevant cases. It is purported that a judge in this extraordinary court offers speedier decisions and remedies than a tenured general judge in a general court. However, Japan faces certain obstacles in the creation of such extraordinary tribunals owing to the content of its Constitution. Article 76…