Creation or Evolution

7. Evolution and Creation

Many consider that Evolution and Creation are alternatives and therefore that one must make a choice between these two explanations of the natural world. This difficulty has dogged the debate since Darwin presented his explanation of the multiplicity and development of species in the 19th C. and even before. The issue has therefore become polarised and often the subject of bitter controversy. H...

Creation vs. Evolution

Creation: Believe It or Not

Naturalism has replaced Christianity as the main religion of the Western world. Though the teaching that natural evolutionary processes can account of the origin of all living species has never been proven, that teaching is central to the philosophy that now dominates Western scholarly thinking. Even evangelicals have become less willing to defend the early chapters of Genesis against the encro...

Genesis 1:1-3: Creation or Re-Creation? Part 1

An issue that has taunted mankind through the ages is the question of origins. Since ancient times people have been keenly interested in understanding and explaining their provenance. The ancient creation mythologies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, Iran, Japan, or Mexico, or a child's question to his parents about who made the world shows that this concern is intrinsic to human nature. The...

Creation and evolution of magnetic helicity

Projecting a non-Abelian SU(2) vacuum gauge field – a pure gauge constructed from the group element U – onto a fixed (electromagnetic) direction in isospace gives rise to a nontrivial magnetic field, with nonvanishing magnetic helicity, which coincides with the winding number of U . Although the helicity is not conserved under Maxwell (vacuum) evolution, it retains one-half its initial value at...