creation science
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- noun
- /kriˈeɪʃən ˈsaɪəns/
- US
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ciencia de la creación
- The struggle against bad science in the classroom goes back at least to the early 1980s and the rise of creation science.
Examples
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The creationists regrouped and invented "creation science," which argued that the creation story is actually supported by good science.
Blog text (26) -
Many scientists argue that creation science lacks the rigorous testing found in evolutionary biology.
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Instead, the court treated the evidence as speaking directly to the threshold question of what creation science was.
Blog text (9) -
Creation science should no more be taught as an alternative to evolution than the stork theory should be taught as an alternative to sexual reproduction.
Academic text (2007) -
They do not know that courts have evaluated the scientific and educational merits of creation science.
Academic text (2004) -
For example, the "creation science" movement claims to be first and foremost a research program whose leaders (or, rather, researchers) only coincidentally happen to be religious fundamentalists.
Academic text (1995) -
The controversy over whether creation science should be included in school curricula continues to spark heated debates.
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Supporters of creation science claim it provides a valid alternative explanation for the origins of life on Earth.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is mostly compositional: a learner who knows 'creation' and 'science' can infer it means a scientific approach or study concerning creation. However, the specific religious/political sense (i.e., the movement seeking to support the Genesis account and oppose evolutionary theory) is culturally specific and not fully predictable from the parts, so full understanding requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Creation science comes from joining creation (the religious idea that God made the world) and science (the study of the natural world). People who use the term try to use experiments and scientific words to support the Bible story, so it means using 'science' to defend 'creation' instead of evolution.