Christian views of creation — who, when, and how?
Most members of ASA think that three creation views, plus variations, are compatible with Bible-based Christianity: In young-earth creation, everything was miraculously created in 144 hours, less than 10,000 years ago. Later, most of the earth’s geology and fossils were formed in a global flood. In old-earth progressive creation, during a long history of nature (billions of years) God created using natural process plus miracles, with independent creations of new species and/or creations by modification of existing genetic material. In old-earth evolutionary creation (theistic evolution), God designed the universe so everything in nature would evolve by natural process that could be guided by God. What about the origin of life? With young-earth creation every species (from bacteria to dogs and humans) was instantly created. Most progressive creationists think God miraculously created the first one-celled living organism, but most evolutionary creationists (or perhaps all, if when defini
