This document discusses and compares creationism and evolutionism. Creationism is the belief that God directly created the physical universe and life, as described in the Bible. The Bible teaches that God created mankind and the world in a specific sequence. Evolutionism believes the universe and life developed naturally over time through processes like natural selection and mutation. There are literal and nonliteral views of creation - literal views take the Bible accounts literally while nonliteral views propose alternatives like the earth being older than the Bible suggests or that God used evolution. The document concludes that both creationism and evolution are matters of faith, and that evolution lacks sufficient evidence to prove its claims while creationism is supported by evidence of God.

1. Creationism vs
Evolutionism
By: Maria Jose Rivas

2. Content
 Creationism
 Evolutionism
 Theories of evolution
 Literal and Nonliteral view
 Nonliteral views of Creation
 Creationism or Evolution

3. Creationism
Biblical creationism: is the belief that the physical universe,
including the earth and all living things, was created by God.
What Bible Teaches About Creation:
 God created by direct acts
 God sustains His creation
 God reveals His power through His creation
 God revealed the sequence of Creation in the Bible

4. Creationism
Biblical creationism: is the belief that the physical universe,
including the earth and all living things, was created by God.
What Bible Teaches About Creation:
 God especially created mankind
 God creation is degenerating
 Because God created mankind, mankind is responsible
to God

5. Evolutionism
Evolutionism: is the belief that the physical universe and
life were not created, but happened by natural process.

6. Theories of evolution
 Theory of inheritance of acquired
characteristics : by Jean Baptist Lamarck
 Theory of natural selection : by Charles
Darwin
 Mutation theory of evolution : by Hugo de
Vries

7. Literal and Nonliteral view
Literal View: or short-day view this view is the point of
view of the Bible.
Nonliteral View: is the point of view that says that the
Bible is wrong and the earth was created by a different
way

8. Nonliteral Views of Creation
 Gap Theory: Says that God created a “first creation”
and when Satan come to earth destroy the first
creation and then God created the world again.
 Long-day Theory: Says that Genesis1 as a long period
of time. Some refer to 2 Peter 3:8 to say that each
creation day was actually thousands or millions of
years.
Theories of nonliteral view:

9.  Progressive creationism: It says that the earth is
billions of years old and that God created by
batches of creatures.
 Theistic evolution: this theory mixes the Bible and
biological evolution. It says that God put the first cell
of evolution and that He created by evolution.

10. Creationism or Evolution
The two “theories” of how earth was created is by faith.
The evolutionist don’t have enough proofs for the
evolution to be true, but creationists have all the proofs
of the only and true God