La ciencia de la creación o el creacionismo científico es una rama del creacionismo que trata de proporcionar apoyo científico a la narración de la creación en el libro del Génesis y refutar los hechos científicos generalmente aceptados y las teorías y paradigmas científicos generalmente aceptados sobre la historia de la Tierra, la cosmología y la evolución biológica. Existe un consenso generalizado en la comunidad científica sobre que la ciencia de la creación es una opinión religiosa, no científica y que la llamada ciencia de la creación en realidad no es una ciencia ya que no sigue el método científico: carece de apoyo empírico, no considera las hipótesis alternativas y decide describir la historia natural por medio de causas sobrenaturales que no se pueden demostrar científicamente. Se ha calificado a la ciencia de la creación de un intento pseudocientífico de convertir la Biblia en hechos científicos. Según Samir Okasha: «virtualmente todos los biólogos profesionales consideran a la ciencia de la creación como una falsedad». Se inició en la década de 1960 como un esfuerzo fundamentalista cristiano en Estados Unidos para demostrar la infalibilidad bíblica y anular las pruebas científicas de la evolución. Desde entonces, ha desarrollado un considerable seguimiento en los Estados Unidos, con la creación de ministerios de la ciencia con ramificaciones en todo el mundo. Las principales ideas en la ciencia de la creación son: la creencia en la "creación ex nihilo" (de la nada), la convicción de que la Tierra fue creada en los últimos 10 000 años y la creencia de que la vida de la humanidad y de otro tipo de formas de vida en la Tierra fue creada desde los diferentes "tipos" baraminológicos (un tipo de taxonomía creacionista). La ciencia de la creación se ha caracterizado como un intento pseudocientífico de presentar la Biblia con hechos científicos.

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Creation science or scientific creationism is a branch of creationism that attempts to provide scientific support for the creation myth in the Book of Genesis and disprove or reinterpret the scientific facts, theories and scientific paradigms about geology, cosmology, biological evolution, archeology, history, and linguistics. The overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is that creation science is a religious, not a scientific view. It fails to qualify as a science because it lacks empirical support, supplies no tentative hypotheses, and resolves to describe natural history in terms of scientifically untestable supernatural causes. Creation science is a pseudoscientific attempt to map the Bible into scientific facts, and is viewed by professional scientists as unscholarly and even as a dishonest and misguided sham, with extremely harmful educational consequences. Creation science began in the 1960s as a fundamentalist Christian effort in the United States to prove Biblical inerrancy and nullify the scientific evidence for evolution. It has since developed a sizable religious following in the United States, with creation science ministries branching worldwide. The main ideas in creation science are: the belief in "creation ex nihilo" (Latin: out of nothing); the conviction that the Earth was created within the last 6,000–10,000 years; the belief that mankind and other life on Earth were created as distinct fixed "baraminological" kinds; and the idea that fossils found in geological strata were deposited during a cataclysmic flood which completely covered the entire Earth. As a result, creation science also challenges the commonly accepted geologic and astrophysical theories for the age and origins of the Earth and Universe, which creationists acknowledge are irreconcilable to the account in the Book of Genesis. Creation science proponents often refer to the theory of evolution as "Darwinism" or as "Darwinian evolution." The creation science texts and curricula that first emerged in the 1960s focused upon concepts derived from a literal interpretation of the Bible and were overtly religious in nature, most notably linking Noah's flood in the Biblical Genesis account to the geological and fossil record in a system termed flood geology. These works attracted little notice beyond the schools and congregations of conservative fundamental and Evangelical Christians until the 1970s when its followers challenged the teaching of evolution in the public schools and other venues in the United States, bringing it to the attention of the public-at-large and the scientific community. Many school boards and lawmakers were persuaded to include the teaching of creation science alongside evolution in the science curriculum. Creation science texts and curricula used in churches and Christian schools were revised to eliminate their Biblical and theological references, and less explicitly sectarian versions of creation science education were introduced in public schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, and other regions in the United States. The 1982 ruling in McLean v. Arkansas found that creation science fails to meet the essential characteristics of science and that its chief intent is to advance a particular religious view. The teaching of creation science in public schools in the United States effectively ended in 1987 following the United States Supreme Court decision in Edwards v. Aguillard. The court affirmed that a statute requiring the teaching of creation science alongside evolution when evolution is taught in Louisiana public schools was unconstitutional because its sole true purpose was to advance a particular religious belief. In response to this ruling, drafts of the creation science school textbook Of Pandas and People were edited to change references of creation to intelligent design before its publication in 1989. The intelligent design movement promoted this version, then teaching intelligent design in public school science classes was found to be unconstitutional in the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District federal court case.

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