Most commonly, "creationists" is used as shorthand for "scientific
creationists", "young earth creationists", etc., as opposed to
creationists who believe the universe and its laws were created by a
deity and that the history of the universe is a result of that
beginning and those laws.  Belief or disbelief concerning the latter
is philosophical, not scientific, because science by definition has
no mechanism to address the supernatural.  The problems arise with
an attempt to invade the territory of science (the natural world) by
claiming that science upholds their religious view of the natural
world in cases where clearly science does no such thing.  Science
cannot, for example, prove that there wasn't a SUPERNATURALLY
imposed, worldwide flood--but science can (and does) say that the
SCIENTIFIC evidence shows no evidence in favor of such a flood and
scientifically conclusive evidence against such a flood.

Numerous scientists consider themselves religious and, in the "in
the beginning" sense, creationists (but few as young earth
creationists, etc.).  For educators, I might suggest the web site
for the National Center for Science Education
(http://www.natcenscied.org/welcome.html).

"Perez, Adrian" wrote:
>
> I write as a Christian who has worked at both a natural science museum and
> an aquarium, where most of my colleagues have come from various scientific
> backgrounds (my own is in art) and I have frequently been the only person in
> my department who has a strong faith in God and creationism as illustrated
> by the Bible.  In my years working in the scientific community what has
> saddened me most is the need for everyone (and I don't use this
> generalization lightly) to separate the ideologies into either "creationism"
> or "evolution"; to separate religion from science, and vise versa.  ...


Art Harris
--
Laboratory for Environmental Biology, Centennial Museum
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX  79968-0915
phone (915)747-6985; fax (915)747-5808; [log in to unmask]
http://www.utep.edu/leb    http://nasa.utep.edu/chih/chihdes.htm
http://www.utep.edu/museum

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