Creationism is the general religious view that the universe and life in it were divinely created. Jews, Muslims and Christians are in this sense Creationists, but Hindu and Buddhist faiths are not as they see the universe as being eternal. It is worth remembering here that from the time of the ancient Greeks some 2500 years ago right up to the early 1960s  most scientists thought that the universe was eternal; it came as a great shock to many when the Big Bang was accepted as correct.  The universe had a beginning, a moment of creation in which not only all of the present energy and matter came into being but all of space and time as well. Much of the discussion between Creationism and Intelligent Design Theory simply revolves around the question of how and why and by whom. 

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One of the problems lies in the current narrow definition of ‘creationism’ which really has a much more significant dimension. In a general sense, it describes what many would see as the self-evident view that the universe has a Creator who is responsible for its origin, its natural laws and the wonder of the life it sustains. Similarly Intelligent Design Theorists argue the same, believing the universe and the intelligent life it contains, is best explained as the product of an intelligent cause which has design, purpose and meaning at its very core.

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Darwinism's Conflict 

 

 

In 1859 Charles Darwin published his famous book …‘On the Origin of Species.’  In it he argued that all of life on earth was the product of blind, undirected natural processes like time, chance, random mutations and natural selection. However, this approach is being challenged as never before, especially by Intelligent Design Theory which claims the actual process of the creation of the universe and life appears to be, not a purposeless, meaningless, random, Darwinian, undirected evolutionary process, but an intelligent process that has direction, design, purpose and meaning at its very core.

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Intelligent design theory does not go so far as to claim that the ‘Intelligent Designer’ is God and does not rely on any religious premises whatsoever, but it does have profound religious implications as it directly refutes materialistic atheism.

 

 

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