Evolutionists have frequently criticized creationism as unscientific because of its basic commitment to the doctrine of creation ex nihilo …that is, "creation out of nothing." The idea that God simply called the universe into existence by His own power, without using any pre-existing materials, is rejected out of hand by evolutionists, since this would involve supernatural

Science, Biblical and anti-Biblical, recognizes
that there was a period of time in the distant past when the
earth was barren. How long ago and how long it lasted is a matter
of conjecture ... unless one accepts the Biblical record. But

"And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness … so God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.' " Gen. 1:26-27.

There is no aspect of creationism which is under greater attack by evolutionists than the Biblical doctrine of recent creation. The evolutionist, knowing the weakness of the scientific case for evolution, almost always directs his own argument not against creation per se, but against recent creation and its corollary, flood geology.

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