False Views of Creation
Christian Beliefs of Creation
Views of Knowledge
Science and Creation
100

The false view that everything is God or a part of God

What is pantheism?

100

Latin for "out of nothing"

ex nihilo

100

The view that humans can know truth only through faith

What is fideism?

100

The modern scientific theory for the beginning of the universe

What is the Big Bang?

200

The false view that only material reality exists

What is materialism?

200

Type of reality that is greater than physical reality

What is spiritual reality?

200

The view that humans can know truth only through science

What is scientism?

200

The age of the universe according to the traditional view

What is less than 8,000 years?

300

The false view that God created the world but does not give divine revelation

What is deism?

300

Creatures in between non-living matter and non-rational animals on the hierarchy of being

What are plants?

300

The view that humans can know truth only through reason

What is rationalism?

300

A reading of the six-days of creation that the Church does not require

What is a literal reading?

400

The false view that the physical world should be rejected or left behind

What is gnosticism?

400

The greatest creatures on the hierarchy of being

What are angels?

400

The view that faith and reason do not contradict each other

What is the Catholic view?

400

Something definitely not created by evolution, according to the Catholic Church

What is the human soul?
500

The false view that we cannot know if God exists

Agnosticism
500

The greatest physical creature

What are humans?

500

The view that faith and reason lead to truths that contradict each other

What is the double truth theory?

500

The modern scientific answer for where the human body comes from

What is Darwinian Evolution?