The creation story found in Genesis in the Bible or the Qur'an, presented by fundamentalists as if it were a literal scientific truth.

(US) A form of theater where the script is not written in advance, but develops from collaborative, usually improvisatory, work, often by the performers themselves.

(computing, design) A design pattern that standardizes the mechanisms of object creation.

plural of creation myth

The belief that God created the universe and the Earth very long ago and that the universe and the Earth are as old as scientists suggest.

(creationism, pseudoscience) Belief that the universe and the Earth are 6,000 to 10,000 years old as inferred from a literal interpretation of the creation narrative in Genesis.

A type of Old Earth creationism which posits that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not ordinary 24-hour days, but are much longer periods (from thousands to billions of years).

(rare) Synonym of gap creationism

Alternative form of Young Earth creationism

Alternative form of Old Earth creationism