Creation Theory

Creationism is the religious belief that the universe and life originated "from specific acts of divine
creation", as opposed to the scientific conclusion that they came about through natural processes. The
first use of the term "creationist" to describe a proponent of creationism is found in an 1856 letter of
Charles Darwin describing those who objected on religious grounds to the then emerging science of
evolution. Creationism covers a spectrum of views including evolutionary creationism, a theological
variant of theistic evolution which asserts that both evolutionary science and a belief in creation are
true, but the term is commonly used for literal creationists who reject various aspects of science, and
instead promote pseudoscientific beliefs.
Literal creationists base their beliefs on a fundamentalist reading of religious texts, including the
creation myths found in Genesis and the Quran. For young Earth creationists, these beliefs are based on
a literalist interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative and rejection of the scientific theory of
evolution. Literalist creationists believe that evolution cannot adequately account for the history,
diversity, and complexity of life on Earth.[10] Pseudoscientific branches of creationism include creation
science, flood geology, and intelligent design, as well as subsets of pseudoarchaeology, pseudohistory,
and pseudolinguistics.

The Big Bang Theory

Since the early part of the 1900s, one explanation of the origin and fate of the universe, the Big Bang
theory, has dominated the discussion. Proponents of the Big Bang maintain that, between 13 billion and
15 billion years ago, all the matter and energy in the known cosmos was crammed into a tiny, compact
point. In fact, according to this theory, matter and energy back then were the same thing, and it was
impossible to distinguish one from the other.
Adherents of the Big Bang believe that this small but incredibly dense point of primitive matter/energy
exploded. Within seconds the fireball ejected matter/energy at velocities approaching the speed of light.
At some later time—maybe seconds later, maybe years later—energy and matter began to split apart
and become separate entities. All of the different elements in the universe today developed from what
spewed out of this original explosion.
Big Bang theorists claim that all of the galaxies, stars, and planets still retain the explosive motion of the
moment of creation and are moving away from each other at great speed. This supposition came from
an unusual finding about our neighboring galaxies. In 1929 astronomer Edwin Hubble, working at the
Mount Wilson Observatory in California, announced that all of the galaxies he had observed were
receding from us, and from each other, at speeds of up to several thousand miles per second.