creation science
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The creation story found in Genesis in the Bible or the Qur'an, presented by fundamentalists as if it were a literal scientific truth.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…] fundamentalist religious believers who look to religious texts (be it the Bible or the Qur'an) to espouse a so-called creation science […]."
- "The case of creation science vis-a-vis theory of evolution, 'Islamic science' (Koran being the source of all scientific knowledge) […]"
- "[…] the inspired writings, be they the Torah, the Qur'an, or the Bible, are interpreted by some in these traditions as providing literal descriptions of all aspects of reality […] Based upon this assumption the idea of creation science was born."