Creationism

It's a mistake to say "Either scientism or creationism." If those are the only two options, then of course a religious person must be a young-earther. But there is a third alternative: Catholicism. Scientism and creationism agree that if there is evolution, then there is no God. Assert God, deny evolution; assert evolution, deny God; or accept God & evolution.

The fear is that if we do not embrace creationism, then we accept scientism. We should not concede the saganist argument that if the Big Bang is true, there is no God or that if evolution takes place, there is no God. We don't have to be creationists in order to deny those absurd arguments from the saganists. There is a third position.

Ken Ham

If you adopt Ham's interpretation for Genesis, you're committed to it for the whole of the Bible. All of his Protestant theology of sola scriptura and the infallible bible come into play.

Links

• Stephen E. Jones, Creation/Evolution/Design, "My Theory of Progressive Mediate Creation: 1.1. What is Progressive Mediate Creation?"

"Progressive Mediate Creation" is the view, based on Genesis 1, that God created the raw materials of the universe immediately from out-of-nothing (ex nihilo), and thereafter He created mediately by working (both naturally and supernaturally) through natural processes and existing materials.

[Creation/Evolution/Design is] my commentary on creation, evolution, intelligent design and the evidence for Christianity being objectively true. I am an Australian Christian old-Earth creationist biologist who accepts universal common ancestry (but not evolution).