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(special creation) A view that opposes evolutionary theory and envisages the vast variety of living organisms, both existing and fossilized, as having been specially designed by a Creator. The attempted construction of phylogenetic pathways based on the idea that living forms have evolved from ancestral forms is interpreted by creationists as evidence of a 'Great Design'. Creationism is difficult to disprove by experiment. Some creationists believe in the theory of catastrophism in which it is thought that there have been a number of creations at different times, each having been destroyed by some kind of natural catastrophe, such as a flood.
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