Young Earth creationism

English

Alternative forms

• YEC (initialism)
• YECism
• Young Earth Creationism
• young-earth creationism
• young earth creationism
• young Earth creationism

Proper noun

Young Earth creationism

1. (creationism, pseudoscience) Belief that the universe and the Earth are 6,000 to 10,000 years old as inferred from a literal interpretation of the creation narrative in Genesis.

Translations

Young Earth Creationism

• German: Junge-Erde-Kreationismus m, Kurzzeitkreationismus m
• Turkish: Yeni Dünya yaratılışçılığı

See also

• anticreationism
• antievolutionism
• creation
• creation/evolution continuum
• creationism
• evolution
• evolutionism
• Old Earth Creationism

Further reading

• Young Earth creationism at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.