False Views of Creation
The false view that everything is God or a part of God
What is pantheism?
Latin for "out of nothing"
ex nihilo
The view that humans can know truth only through faith
What is fideism?
The modern scientific theory for the beginning of the universe
What is the Big Bang?
The false view that only material reality exists
What is materialism?
Type of reality that is greater than physical reality
What is spiritual reality?
The view that humans can know truth only through science
What is scientism?
The age of the universe according to the traditional view
What is less than 8,000 years?
The false view that God created the world but does not give divine revelation
What is deism?
Creatures in between non-living matter and non-rational animals on the hierarchy of being
What are plants?
The view that humans can know truth only through reason
What is rationalism?
A reading of the six-days of creation that the Church does not require
What is a literal reading?
The false view that the physical world should be rejected or left behind
What is gnosticism?
The greatest creatures on the hierarchy of being
What are angels?
The view that faith and reason do not contradict each other
What is the Catholic view?
Something definitely not created by evolution, according to the Catholic Church
The false view that we cannot know if God exists
The greatest physical creature
What are humans?
The view that faith and reason lead to truths that contradict each other
What is the double truth theory?
The modern scientific answer for where the human body comes from
What is Darwinian Evolution?