This research project provides an overview of the famous life origin theory that dwells on religious beliefs. Specifically, the report outlines the foundation of the Creationism theory that regards God as a creator of life on the earth. Thus, the argument relies on Christianity and is supported by numerous theological dogmas in the most powerful church environments of the world.
The idea of Creationism is based on a common assumption, due to which every life form refers to God as a driving force of the living sphere. One differentiates several types of the doctrine. These are traditional and intelligent Creationism theories. The initial theory follows some general persuasions. First, it claims that every organism that is created by God can not give birth to the equivalent creation since only God has the power of producing the forms of life.
Second, the dogma states that every conception that can be found in the world is based on a particular godly intention. Third, due to the underlying principles of traditional Creationism, no act can be accomplished in the world without the guidance and assistance of the Almighty Creator. The theory of neo-Creationism relies on the altered form of the general doctrine. Mainly, it acknowledges that the designer of the life forms is not necessarily God, but any mighty intelligent power. The theory stems from the idea of the complexity of individual living things and is often regarded as Creationism in disguise (“Creationism and Intelligent Design” par. 4).
The theory of Creationism stands in strong opposition to the Evolution hypothesis, according to which the origins of life refer to the humanistic naturalism rather than Christianity. Thus, the proponents of the scientific approach to life creation claim that the usage of religious philosophy as an explanation of human beginnings accounts for the eradication of objective reality, which is represented by traditional science. In other words, it is argued that no creation theories can be defended in general, for the origins of life account for the naturalistic grounds, which brings the idea of evolution as a substitution of production (“A Theory of Creation” par. 9).
The theology specialists emphasize that there are several forms of Creationism as well. For instance, one distinguishes Gap Creationism, Day-Age Creationism, Old and Young Earth Creationism, etc. The theory of Gap concerns the concept of two creations, the first of which refers to the times before Adam, and the second embraces the period that followed the initial one. The idea of Day-Age regards the substitution of each of six creation days for ages. The followers of this dogma argue that it is impossible to build up the whole world in a week. Therefore, they claim that the concept of a day in the theory of Creationism was abstract and embraced the prolonged periods.
The Young Earth Creationism follows a traditional Christian belief of six-day creation and relies on the teachings of the Book of Genesis, which is viewed as a highly objective Christian theory. Finally, the Old Earth Creationism depicts God as a facilitator of life creation rather than a single producer. Thus, due to this theory, the Almighty Creator has some assistant forces, which helped him in producing multilevel life forms.
Despite the idea of Creationism is based on controversial assumptions, it transmits the collective wisdom that was nurtured by multiple communities throughout the century. Therefore, it has it’s right to existence and further theoretical justifications.
Works Cited
A Theory of Creation 2015.