Creation Science & Creationism
Creation Science and the Christian Worldview
The question of origins is ultimately a question about worldview. How a person understands the origin of the universe, the earth, life, and humanity affects how he understands God, Scripture, human nature, morality, purpose, and the meaning of history.
The Bible begins with a straightforward declaration: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Scripture presents God as the Creator of all things and presents human beings as creatures made in His image. The biblical account of creation is therefore not merely a scientific question. It is foundational to Christian theology and the Christian understanding of reality.
Creation science seeks to investigate the natural world while taking seriously the biblical account of creation and early earth history. Creation scientists argue that scientific evidence can be interpreted within a biblical framework and challenge the assumption that evolutionary and deep-time explanations are the only legitimate interpretations of the evidence.
Creationism, Evolution, and Worldview
The origins debate involves competing interpretations of evidence as well as competing assumptions about reality.
Biblical creationism affirms that God intentionally created the universe and everything in it, and that the biblical account of creation and early history is historically trustworthy.
Young-earth creationism generally understands Genesis 1–11 as describing relatively recent creation, a historical Adam and Eve, the entrance of death through the Fall, and a global Flood in the days of Noah. Many of the organizations listed below hold this position.
Old-earth creationism accepts an ancient age for the earth and universe while maintaining that God is the Creator and that life ultimately exists because of His purposeful creative activity.
Intelligent design argues that certain features of the universe and living organisms are best explained by intelligent causation rather than undirected natural processes. Intelligent design and biblical creationism overlap in some arguments but are not identical positions.
Theistic evolution attempts to reconcile evolutionary theory with belief in God by proposing that God created through evolutionary processes. Christians should carefully examine the theological and philosophical implications of this approach, particularly its understanding of Genesis, Adam and Eve, the Fall, and the origin of death.
The organizations below are primarily associated with biblical creationism, particularly young-earth creationism and the defense of the historical reliability of Genesis.
Major Creation Science Organizations
Answers in Genesis
Answers in Genesis is one of the world’s largest biblical creation ministries. Founded by Ken Ham, AiG provides articles, books, conferences, speakers, educational resources, museums, and apologetics material defending the authority of Scripture and a historical understanding of Genesis.
Creation & Evolution Resources
Institute for Creation Research
The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is a major creation science research and education organization founded by Dr. Henry M. Morris. ICR conducts scientific research, publishes Acts & Facts, produces educational resources, operates the ICR Discovery Center for Science and Earth History, and trains Christians to defend biblical creation.
Institute for Creation Research
Creation Ministries International
Creation Ministries International (CMI) is an international Christian ministry dedicated to proclaiming the authority and reliability of Scripture, particularly the historical account of Genesis. CMI produces scientific articles, books, magazines, videos, conferences, and speakers addressing creation, evolution, geology, fossils, dinosaurs, genetics, astronomy, and related subjects.
Creation Ministries International
Creation Research Society
The Creation Research Society (CRS) is a professional scientific organization founded in 1963. Its members affirm special creation and the biblical account of creation and early history. CRS publishes the peer-reviewed Creation Research Society Quarterly, provides research grants, and supports scientific research from a creationist perspective.
Creation Research Society Quarterly
Creation Research
Creation Research is an international Christian ministry founded by John Mackay. It operates creation discovery centers and provides articles, research, field studies, tours, books, videos, and other resources concerning biblical creation, the Flood, geology, fossils, and related subjects.
Creation Research UK
Creation Research UK provides Christian creation resources, articles, lectures, and educational material defending biblical creation and addressing questions concerning evolution and origins.
Biblical Creation Society
The Biblical Creation Society is a British Christian society that has defended biblical creation since 1976. It publishes Origins, provides speakers and educational resources, and addresses scientific and theological questions concerning creation and evolution.
Creation Science Ministries & Apologetics
Alpha Omega Institute
Alpha Omega Institute provides creation science education and apologetics resources for churches, families, schools, and individuals. Founded by Dave and Mary Jo Nutting, the ministry emphasizes scientific and biblical evidence for creation.
Apologetics Press
Apologetics Press is a Christian apologetics organization dedicated to defending New Testament Christianity. Its extensive resources address creation and evolution, the existence of God, biblical inspiration, alleged contradictions, archaeology, and other apologetics questions.
Creation vs. Evolution Resources
Biblical Science Institute
Founded by Dr. Jason Lisle, the Biblical Science Institute is a creation-focused science and apologetics ministry that seeks to equip Christians to defend the biblical worldview against claims that science contradicts Scripture.
Creation Training Initiative
Creation Training Initiative (CTI) equips pastors, teachers, parents, and students to teach and defend biblical creation, apologetics, and the Christian faith. Founded by Mike Riddle, CTI continues his work under the leadership of Dr. Anthony R. Silvestro Jr., who became president following Riddle’s death in July 2026.
Creation Today
Creation Today brings together biblical teaching and scientific evidence to strengthen Christians’ faith and provide answers concerning creation and evolution. The ministry produces the Creation Today Show, articles, videos, educational resources, and creation-related films.
Creation Worldview Ministries
Creation Worldview Ministries, founded by Dr. Grady S. McMurtry, combines creation science, biblical apologetics, discipleship, evangelism, and Christian worldview education.
Search for the Truth
Bruce Malone’s Search for the Truth provides creation science resources designed to help students, teachers, pastors, churches, and others understand and communicate evidence for biblical creation.
Reasons for Hope
Reasons for Hope, led by Carl Kerby, provides apologetics and creation resources designed to help Christians defend the truth of Scripture and communicate the Christian faith.
Creation Museums & Educational Experiences
Ark Encounter
Ark Encounter is a large-scale Christian attraction in Kentucky featuring a life-size reconstruction of Noah’s Ark and exhibits presenting the biblical account of the Flood and early human history.
Creation Museum
The Creation Museum in northern Kentucky presents exhibits concerning creation, the Fall, Noah’s Flood, dinosaurs, biblical history, and the Christian worldview.
Creation Experience Museum
The Creation Experience Museum in Missouri provides free guided tours, hands-on activities, fossils, exhibits, and educational resources presenting the biblical creation account.
David Rives Ministries
David Rives Ministries combines science, astronomy, biblical creation, photography, media, and evangelism. Its ministry includes the Wonders Center & Science Museum, educational videos, books, creation tours, and the Creation Club.
Wonders Center & Science Museum
Creation Field Studies & Exploration
Design Science Association / Creation Encounter
Design Science Association is an Oregon-based Christian creation science organization. Its Creation Encounter ministry provides creation field studies, tours, road guides, and educational resources designed to demonstrate that scientific investigation is compatible with biblical creation.
Northwest Creation Network
Northwest Creation Network provides free Christian creation and apologetics resources, including articles, speakers, conferences, and creation science materials.
Christian Creation Curriculum
Apologia Educational Ministries
Apologia publishes creation-based K–12 homeschool science curriculum and other Christian educational resources. Its science courses approach the study of the natural world within a biblical Christian worldview.
Apologia Educational Ministries
Master Books
Master Books publishes Christian homeschool curriculum across numerous subjects, including creation science, biology, earth science, and biblical studies.
Creation Resources & Historical Materials
Biblical Discipleship Ministries
Biblical Discipleship Ministries, founded by Dr. Jobe Martin, provides apologetics and creation resources emphasizing biblical authority and the defense of the Christian faith.
Biblical Discipleship Ministries
Center for Scientific Creation
The Center for Scientific Creation was founded by Dr. Walt Brown and is known particularly for its Hydroplate Theory, a proposed scientific model for explaining geological features and the global Flood within a young-earth creation framework.
Center for Scientific Creation
Creation, Evolution & Science Ministries
Russ Miller’s Creation, Evolution & Science Ministries provides presentations, educational resources, and apologetics material addressing evolution, creation science, and the authority of Scripture.
Creation, Evolution & Science Ministries
Creation Network
Creation Network provides a collection of creation science resources, speakers, tours, events, and related ministries.
Creation Resource Foundation
Dennis Peterson’s Creation Resource Foundation provides creation science and biblical worldview resources, particularly concerning creation, evolution, and the historical reliability of Genesis.
Eden Communications
Eden Communications, associated with Paul Taylor and ChristianAnswers.net, provides Christian educational and apologetics resources, including material concerning creation, evolution, archaeology, and biblical history.
Evolution Handbook
The Evolution Handbook is a free resource addressing claims concerning biological evolution and presenting arguments for a creationist understanding of origins.
Is Genesis History?
Is Genesis History? is a documentary and educational resource featuring scientists and researchers who examine geological, biological, and historical evidence from a biblical creation perspective. The project is associated with Del Tackett and the Is Genesis History? documentary.
Mission Imperative
Mission Imperative, founded by Mike Snavely, provides creation science and biblical apologetics resources, including presentations addressing evolution, creation, and the reliability of Scripture.
Nature’s Workshop Plus
Nature’s Workshop Plus provides Christian educational resources, science materials, specimens, fossils, and creation-related resources for families, homeschoolers, churches, and educators.
Whitcomb Ministries
Whitcomb Ministries continues the creation and biblical teaching legacy of Dr. John Whitcomb, a pioneering figure in modern young-earth creationism and biblical apologetics.
Creation Science and the Question of Scientific Interpretation
Creation science does not begin with the assumption that the natural world can be understood independently of God. Instead, it recognizes that scientific investigation always involves interpretation and that interpretations are influenced by assumptions about reality, knowledge, causation, and the history of the universe.
A Christian worldview begins with God’s revelation and then seeks to understand God’s creation consistently with that revelation. This does not mean ignoring scientific evidence. It means recognizing that evidence does not interpret itself.
For example, fossils are real physical evidence. The question is what geological and biological history best explains those fossils. Geological layers are observable. The question is what processes produced them and over what period of time. Biological similarities are observable. The question is whether those similarities are best explained by common ancestry, common design, or another model.
This is why the creation-evolution debate is fundamentally a worldview debate as well as a scientific debate.
Creation, Evolution, and Presuppositions
A major issue in the origins debate is the distinction between observational science and claims about unobserved historical events.
Christians should recognize that scientists can make reliable observations about the present while disagreeing profoundly about what those observations mean concerning the unobserved past.
Historical reconstructions necessarily involve assumptions. For this reason, Christians should ask questions such as:
What assumptions about the past are being made?
Does the proposed explanation require naturalistic assumptions?
How does the interpretation account for the evidence?
What predictions does the model make?
Does the interpretation fit with the historical claims of Scripture?
Are alternative explanations being fairly considered?
The goal is not to reject science. The goal is to recognize that science itself is practiced within a philosophical framework.
Creation and the Christian Faith
The doctrine of creation provides the foundation for many other biblical doctrines.
If God created the universe, then He is its rightful Lord.
If mankind was created in God’s image, human life possesses objective dignity and value.
If Adam and Eve were historical people, the Fall is a historical event with consequences for the human race.
If death entered the world through sin, then the biblical doctrine of redemption is connected to the historical reality of the Fall.
If Jesus Christ is the Creator, as Colossians 1:16 teaches, then creation is directly connected to Christology.
The doctrine of creation therefore affects theology, anthropology, ethics, salvation, the doctrine of sin, and the Christian understanding of history.
Key Biblical Principles
God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
God created mankind in His image.
Genesis 1:26–27
Creation declares God’s glory.
Psalm 19:1; Romans 1:19–20
God created all things through Christ.
John 1:1–3; Colossians 1:15–17
Death entered human experience through sin.
Romans 5:12
The Fall affected the created order.
Genesis 3:17–19; Romans 8:19–22
Christians are called to defend the truth.
1 Peter 3:15; Jude 3
All things ultimately belong to God.
Psalm 24:1