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Creationism is the belief that God created the world exactly as it is today. Creationist beliefs run counter to Darwinist beliefs, the latter of which are founded in observable scientific fact rather than in spirituality or religion.
Creationism Quotes in The Beak of the Finch
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Only varieties. If so, they would fit comfortably within the orthodox view of life. But what if they were something more than varieties? […] What if there were no limits to their divergence? What if they had diverged first into varieties, and then gone right on diverging into species. new species, each marooned on its own island?
“—If there is the slightest foundation for these remarks,” Darwin wrote, “the zoology of Archipelagoes—will be well worth examining; for such facts undermine the stability of Species.” Then, in a scribble that foreshadowed two decades of agonized caution, Darwin inserted a word: “would undermine the stability of Species.”
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Chapter 2: What Darwin Saw
Having studied scripture at Cambridge, Darwin was still largely a Creationist—he believed that God had created all animals as the now were. Darwin drew on the...
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Epilogue: God and the Galápagos
...of U.S. citizens still do not believe in evolution. But scientists like Schluter insist that Creationists should understand that evolution is, indeed, Creation at work. When the Grants talk to strangers...
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