What is Creation: Definition and 321 Discussions

Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation.
In its broadest sense, creationism includes a continuum of religious views, which vary in their acceptance or rejection of scientific explanations 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 interpretation of the creation myths found in the Bible's Genesis creation narrative. Since the 1970s, the most common form of this has been Young Earth creationism which posits special creation of the universe and lifeforms within the last 10,000 years on the basis of flood geology, and promotes pseudoscientific creation science. From the 18th century onward, Old Earth creationism accepted geological time harmonized with Genesis through gap or day-age theory, while supporting anti-evolution. Modern old-Earth creationists support progressive creationism and continue to reject evolutionary explanations. Following political controversy, creation science was reformulated as intelligent design and neo-creationism.Mainline Protestants and the Catholic Church reconcile modern science with their faith in Creation through forms of theistic evolution which hold that God purposefully created through the laws of nature, and accept evolution. Some groups call their belief evolutionary creationism. Less prominently, there are also members of the Islamic and Hindu faiths who are creationists. Use of the term "creationist" in this context dates back to Charles Darwin's unpublished 1842 sketch draft for what became On the Origin of Species, and he used the term later in letters to colleagues. Asa Gray published a 1873 article in The Nation saying a "special creationist" who held that species "were supernaturally originated just as they are, by the very terms of his doctrine places them out of the reach of scientific explanation."

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  1. K

    Create Matter: A Puzzling Mystery

    This has puzzled me for a very long time. I know the theory that the universe was created from a big bang, but this means that all the matter in the universe existed in a different form before that. Be it gas or some other weird substance, it still existed. So how can all this substance appear...
  2. C

    Harnessing G-Field Energy for Mass Creation

    Can we turn the energy of a G field into mass ?
  3. C

    Creating a FAQ: Questions about the Universe

    Greetings, I see the same questions asked repeatedly (including by myself). It would be great if once a question is answered, it be added to a FAQ. A FAQ for each forum category. Such questions include: 1) Does an object A moving relative to an object B exert a stronger gravitational...
  4. J

    "Yttrium-103 Creation: Seeking Help"

    speaking of sythetic elements does anyone know how yttrium-103 was created if you do that would be a big help
  5. F

    Photon Creation and Light Generation

    I know people get tired of answering questions about photons, but I have a question regarding the best way to think of how light (i.e. E-M waves) are created. Several books and educational resources say that a light wave is created by "vibrating electrical charges." But my understanding of...
  6. V

    Mass Increase When Moving at Speed of Light?

    Hello, I have a conundrum I cannot fathom a reasonable explanation to. Suppose I were in a moving vessel at the speed of light (yes, I said it). If I were to get up and try to walk forward, I would have my velocity reduced since I cannot exceed the speed of light. Can I postulate then, by...
  7. tom.stoer

    Neutrino pair creation in electron positron scattering

    Hello, does anybody know how to compare (at tree level) the two reactions e^- + e^+ \to \gamma^\ast \to e^- + e^+ and e^- + e^+ \to Z^\ast \to \nu + \bar{\nu} \;\;\; \text{and} \;\;\; e^- + e^+ \to W^\ast \to \nu_e + \bar{\nu}_e The first process is the so-called Bhabha...
  8. Jon Richfield

    Stany asked about LHC BH creation

    Moved from locked thread. Stany asked: 1: That was about creating mini black holes, not worm holes. 2: Although the maths was not provably impossible, it is not yet clear whether mini-black holes can be created in practice except by evaporation from not-so-mini BHs which is a SLOOOOOW...
  9. E

    A Tear at the Edge of Creation

    http://books.simonandschuster.com/Tear-at-the-Edge-of-Creation/Marcelo-Gleiser/9781439108321 Overturning more than twenty-five centuries of scientific thought, award-winning physicist Marcelo Gleiser argues that this quest for a Theory of Everything is fundamentally misguided, and he explains...
  10. C

    Conversion formula creation assistance

    Hi, I'm working on a project that uses a mass air flow sensor. It outputs a signal in hertz which relates to grams per second. I am trying to create a formula that I can use to easily convert the Hz to G/s. I have only been able to get a few samples of information to assist in the...
  11. P

    The creation of the moon (a kind of conceptual problem

    Homework Statement One likely theory for the origin of the Moon is that it was formed by the impact of a Mars-sized object on the young Earth. How fast would the object have to be going when it hit the Earth to vaporize enough rock to make the Moon? Homework Equations The Attempt...
  12. M

    Finding the Result of (a+a#)^n

    Suppose a problem requires me to find the result of [(a+a#)^n ]ln> , where a is the annhilation operator , and a# is the creation operator , now n can be any number , suppose if it is 10 then will i write (a+a#) 10 times and then multiply each of these terms to see which are non zero , isn't...
  13. E

    E=MC^2 and the creation of mass

    First of all, if anything in this post is incorrect I'm sorry. My physics is still developing and I hope to learn a lot here! So, E=MC^2 states that mass can be converted directly into energy, and a he'll of a lot of it, correct? However, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only...
  14. R

    Helium 3 and Artificial Creation of Isotopes

    Hey folks, I think this is the best section to ask this question. I've been thinking about the mining of He-3 on either the moon or the gas giants and the associated exorbitant costs, usually measured in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars. I've also been trying to think of ways...
  15. P

    Energy required for creation of photoelectron

    I found in one book that the energy required for creation of one photoelectron in silicon is 1.14eV (that's the energy gap between vallence and conduction band). So only photons with energy higher than 1.14eV can create one free electron. It's understandable for me. But when the energy is...
  16. T

    Is Star Formation Just a Matter of Lag Time?

    it is known that there is considerable lag time when light travels from some place and reached us her on earth. is it possible that what we consider to be star formation actually nothing more than us receiving their light for the first time? thanks in advance.
  17. S

    Creation and annihilation operator in quantum mechanics?

    What is exactly the creation and annihilation operator in quantum mechanics? What its physical significance?
  18. J

    Make a Glass Bottle Creation at Home

    Is it possible to make one of these at home using an everyday glass bottle? If so could anyone tell me how? Thanks
  19. D

    What are some theories of the creation of the universe?

    Hi, I'm new to this forum and I thought I'd ask for some help with my research paper. Well I am a Senior in Highschool and I take IB (International Baccalaureate [Google it]) courses which are basically super advanced courses. Anyway, one of the requirements is that I write a 3,500-4,000 word...
  20. B

    Particle creation, antiproton and 3 protons from 2 protons

    Homework Statement So basically my instructor did this as an example and I am having trouble figuring out exactly the train of thought. So we've got two protons, in the lab frame, one is at rest and the other is incident on the other. What I want to know is how much energy and how fast the...
  21. D

    Particle Creation in the Bohmian Approach

    What is the analog of particle creation and vacuum energy in the Bohmian approach? Has Bohmian QFT been developed to a point where it can provide a satisfactory explanation of this phenomenon within it's framework?
  22. T

    Wheeler-deWitt equation; creation ex nihilo

    So the Hamiltonian of the wave-function of the universe is equivalent to zero. Am I correct in interpreting this as a statement that, if taken together, all the energies of the universe, in some sense, would "sum to zero"? If energy cannot be created, nor destroyed, then the fact that they "sum...
  23. CFDFEAGURU

    C/C++ Creating C++ .dll File for Use with C# - Error: "regsvr32.exe Cannot be Found

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  24. A

    Can Virtual Particles in the Vacuum be Directly Detected?

    Why cannot virtual particles in the vacuum be directly detected? Experiments have shown the Casimir Effect that supports the idea of virtual particles does exist. But can we also detect the presence of virtual particles directly in the vacuum? The most common virtual particle to form is photon...
  25. C

    From Big Bang to Iron: A Timeline of Creation

    If our sun will took around 15 billion years to convert hydrogen (Atomic#1) in helium (Atomic#2) how much time it took, since big bang, to generate heavy atoms like all we have on Earth as iron, uranium, plutonium and etc ?
  26. maverick280857

    Lorentz Transformation and Creation Operators

    Hi Suppose \Lambda is a Lorentz transformation with the associated Hilbert space unitary operator denoted by U(\Lambda). We have U(\Lambda)|p\rangle = |\Lambda p\rangle and |p\rangle = \sqrt{2E_{p}}a_{p}^{\dagger}|0\rangle Equivalently, U(\Lambda)|p\rangle =...
  27. Z

    QG in terms of creation of anhinilation operators

    perhaps it is just a nonsense but can we express or could we express g_{ab }(x) = \int exp(iux)a(+)f(+) + \int exp(-iux)a(-)f(-) the idea is, we express the metric g_ab in terms of the creation an anhinilation operators we write also \pi _ab (conjugate momenta) as a sum of...
  28. L

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  29. A

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  30. B

    Radiocarbon creation mechanisms

    Hello all! I have a question about the way or ways in which C-14 can be created: From the background research I have done, I see that high energy neutrons colliding with nitrogen atoms give rise to C-14. I also looked a little bit into beta+ decay. I was curious as to whether or not...
  31. B

    Searching for Knowledge: Exploring the Energy of Creation

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  32. S

    Exploring Irrational Creation: Atheist/Theist Forum

    I am participating in an atheist/theist forum and don't have a physics background. An idea is - everything we are aware of is within the cosmos - hence logic, or any process susceptible to logic, also only exists within the cosmos - ergo the universe was probably created by means we would...
  33. C

    Particle Creation: Uncovering the Universe's Origins

    I understand that it is said that the universe is expanding and all that but where did all the matter come from that exists, did it all come from a single point particle or is there another theory for this. It seems like one of those questions that it is still under investigation heavily by...
  34. C

    Dimensions Creation: Theory or Always Existed?

    out of curiosity is there any theory on how dimensions that we exist in were created? or are they always said to have existed.
  35. P

    Big bang, little bangs, or sontaneous creation?

    Broadly speaking, any new theory, (plate tectonics, origin of species etc.), on an established subject, will be greeted with howls of opposition, but with the course of time and ever more supporting evidence, the theory will gain favour, as it was with the big bang. The principal evidence was...
  36. K

    Creation Operator of Harmonic Oscillator

    For creation operator of hamonic oscillator, we have a^\dagger |n> = \sqrt{n+1}|n+1> if I consider the creation operator operate on the bar vector, should I also get the same thing? namely <n|a^\dagger = \sqrt{n+1}<n+1|
  37. thenewmans

    The collapse of one wave function is the creation of another

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  38. X

    Electron-positron pair creation by weak interaction?

    Hello, Im trying to find out if, since an electron positron pair can anhillate to produce a muon-anti muon pair by the weak interaction, can the same thing occur for the production of an electron/anti-electron pair? Or would it just happen by the electromagnetic force? Or both, with the weak...
  39. T

    Is it Possible for a Photon to Create an Electron-Positron Pair?

    an electron-positron pair, each with a kinetic energy of 220 Kev, is produced by a photon. find the energy and wavelength of the photon. started with E=hf=pc , and the fact that p=mv, but his not working
  40. E

    Tree Creation Via Traversal Output

    Hi, I'm familiar with tree traversal alogirthms, post,pre and in-order. If you give me a tree I can print out the specified traversal of that tree. However, one thing I can't do is build a tree from a given output. For example, on my last test, my prof gave me this Question: A pre-order of a...
  41. D

    Universe Expansion: Is There a Formula for Space Creation?

    All the theories of the universe’s origins that I have read discuss expanding matter and energy. As far as I know, it is assumed that this expansion created space. I have also read that the universe is continuing to expand, however, at a much less energetic pace. I am wondering if anyone has...
  42. H

    Particle creation and annihilation and the remaining fields problem

    lets simulate this simple experiment: creation followed by annihilation of 2 equal particles of type P, here named P1 and P2. (*) assuming the precursors before creation as usual, and also residuals as usual after annihilation. The question is about the remaining fields, gravitational...
  43. P

    How does the creation of virtual particles allow the universe to accelerate?

    Based on theories of an accelerating universe, how can the creation and annihilation of pairs of particles/anti-particles (virtual particles) generate energy in a vacuum (space) thus contribute to Eintstein's theory of a cosmological constant (positive pressure). And if the quantum...
  44. S

    Eigenkets of the creation operator

    Homework Statement The problem is to find the eigenkets for the creation operator ,a^{\dagger} if they exist Homework Equations a^{\dagger}|\Psi>=\lambda|\Psi> a^{\dagger}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2*\hbar*m*\omega}}*(-\hbar*\frac{d}{dx}+m*\omega*x) The Attempt at a Solution I use the...
  45. DaveC426913

    Almost done my creation - help w 12VDC circuit

    OK, I've almost finished the hardware for my micro-aquarium. See diagram P=pump, H=heater, L=light (20W halogen), F=fan(CPU cooler) The 12V system is my last tweak. The basis of it is one of those 3x20W puck light sets from IKEA. I've ditched two of the lights and wired up the fan...
  46. R

    Commuting creation and annihilation operators

    Hello, I have the missfortune of having to calculate a commutator with some powers of the creation and the annihilation operators, something like: \left[ a^m , (a^{\dagger})^n \right] I have managed to derive \left[ a^m , (a^{\dagger})^n \right]= m a^{m-1} \left[ a , a^{\dagger}...
  47. K

    Feynman's perspective on negative energy states and pair creation

    Dirac's theory of the electron predicted that there were identical particles of equal mass but of negative energy. He appealed to the Pauli exclusion principle and proposed that there was a negative energy 'sea' of electrons that was full up to -2mc^2 in order to answer critics that positive...
  48. L

    Ellipsoid Creation and Rotation

    A little background first is that I'm currently a rising Sophomore at Winthrop University in South Carolina. I am a Computer Science and Mathematics Double Major. After finishing half-way through third semester calculus and dealing with 3-Dimensional space, vectors, planes, and surfaces, I...
  49. DaveC426913

    Naked-Eye Visible GRB: Witnessing Halfway Across All Creation

    On March 19th at 2:20AM** http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/03/20/naked-eye-visible-grb/". In the few seconds this object flared, it put out a million, million, million times more energy than the Sun will in its entire 10 billion year lifetime. This occurred very, very far away, but it...
  50. W

    Is cosmology an extension of creation science?

    Is cosmology an attempt of the church to highjack science? Is this cosmology the beginning of a new breed of "science" where belief is protected and taught under the name of science?
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