Is creation(ism) a good thing or a bad thing

[EastCoastRemnant]

Creation ex nihilo is a doctrine which developed over against the idea that before God created the world, there was primeval disordered matter, and that creation was the act of shaping and bringing order to that pre-existent matter. (Hence, out of nothing, rather than out of something that already existed).

Ex deo would suggest that the substance, the stuff, of matter was itself made of God's substance, rather than created by God to be separate and distinct from God; it would lead to a kind of panentheism, which is problematic for Christians.

For me, out of God signifies His spoken Word... but I can see how pantheism could be inferred.

 

[BobRyan]

Dear fossil deniers --

What explanation is needed for "stories easy enough to tell but they are not science"? Why not accept the fossils as they are instead of for what evolutionism re-imagines them to be??

When in fact your own Collin Patterson is telling you that

" statements about ancestry and descent are not applicable in the fossil record. Is Archaeopteryx the ancestor of all birds? Perhaps yes, perhaps no there is no way of answering the question. It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favoured by natural selection. But such stories are not part of science,"
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Creationism - is good if you are a Christian or a scientist.

It is bad if you are an atheist or some other form of believer in junk-science.