Global creationism

Dr. Carl Wieland was a founder of Creation Ministries International, a Christian ministry which is in four continents.

Johns Hopkins University Press reported in 2014: "Over the past forty years, creationism has spread swiftly among European Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, and Muslims, even as anti-creationists sought to smother its flames."[1] See also: Evolutionary indoctrination

On October 4, 2014, the Vancouver Sun reported that evolutionism is rejected by hundreds of millions of evangelical Christians and Muslims around the world.[2]

Specifically, the Vancouver Sun declared:

“  |  Creationism, a religious world view that adamantly rejects Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, is on the rise among evangelical Protestants and most of the world’s Muslims.

It is not only the majority of residents in Muslim countries such as Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey who strongly reject the teaching that humans and other species evolved over millions of years from less complex creatures. So do tens of millions of evangelical Christians in North America (as well as South America and Africa).

Overall, [Nidhal Guessoum, a Middle Eastern physics and astronomy professor] who teaches at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, estimates roughly 60 per cent of the world’s Muslims are creationists, including many living in the U.S. and Canada.

Even though poll results about evolution vary based on the questions asked, Salman Hameed reported in the journal Science that strong anti-evolution majorities exist in Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt and Pakistan. The latter is among Canada’s top six source countries for immigrants...

An Angus-Reid survey found 43 per cent of Americans accept the creationist teaching that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, which means they reject the...view the universe began roughly 13 billion years ago.[3]

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## Contents

* 1 Rapid growth of biblical creation belief in China
* 2 Growth of global creationism: Growth of evangelical Christianity and pentecostalism
* 2.1 Growth of pentecostalism
* 3 Global intelligence design movement
* 4 Growth of creationist apologetics and its effect on Christendom
* 5 Islamic creationism
* 6 Islam and belief in creationism/evolution
* 6.1 Islam and belief in creationism vs. belief in evolution
* 6.2 Atlas of Creation
* 7 See also
* 8 External links
* 9 Notes

## Rapid growth of biblical creation belief in China[edit]

See also: China and biblical creationism and Growth of Christianity in China

Evangelical Christianity is growing rapidly in China (see: Growth of Christianity in China). China may have one of the largest populations of biblical creationists in the world by 2030 (see: China and biblical creationism).

Jun-Yuan Chen Research Professor Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying, "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government, but not Darwin."[4]

## Growth of global creationism: Growth of evangelical Christianity and pentecostalism[edit]

See also: Growth of evangelical Christianity and Pentecostalism and Future of Christianity

According to Slate, "Protestant Christianity has been the fastest growing religion in China."[5] Evangelical Christianity is especially growing sharply in China.[6] See: Growth of Christianity in China

One of the reasons why global creationism is rising is due to the rapid rise of evangelical Christianity and pentecostalism in the world.

### Growth of pentecostalism[edit]

The American sociologist and author Peter L. Berger introduced the concept of desecularization in 1999.[7][8] According to Berger, "One can say with some confidence that modern Pentecostalism must be the fastest growing religion in human history."[9] See also: Growth of pentecostalism and Growth of religious fundamentalism

The atheist author and advocate David Madison, PhD wrote in March 2019: "I remain haunted—and terrified—by what I read on a Christian website, not long after the turn of this century: that by 2025, there will be one billion (yes, that’s with a “b”) Pentecostals in the world."[10]

## Global intelligence design movement[edit]

See also: Global intelligent design movement

Evolution News and Views reported concerning the intelligent design movement:

“  |  Along with the absurd stereotype that support for ID is limited to right-wing fundamentalist Christians … there’s also the Darwinist agitprop point that advocates of the theory are rare outside the United States. Hardly! An unacknowledged strength of the ID movement is its international character.

Asia is an up-and-coming ID hot spot, as ENV has reported. See here for Signature in the Cell and Explore Evolution [links omitted for Discoveroid books] in their recent and handsome Korean editions.

Europe and Asia aside, how about Brazil? From South America’s most populous nation, accounting for half the continent’s total population, comes news of the First Brazilian Intelligent Design Congress, scheduled for November 14–16 this year at [details of the event].[11]

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## Growth of creationist apologetics and its effect on Christendom[edit]

See also: Growth of evangelical Christianity

Dr. Johnson C. Philip & Dr. Saneesh Cherian wrote in their work Introduction To Integrated Christian Apologetics:

“  |  American evangelical Christians have began to notice in the fifties that compromise is a slow poison that ultimately destroys respect for truth. Some of them came together and started writing aggressively on themes defending the historical and scientific reliability of the Bible. This gave birth to the modern interest in Apologetics and Creationism. At the dawn of the twenty-first century the influence of this revival has spread all over the world, and today more than one hundred and fifty organizations function around the world, devoted solely to apologetics. Their influence has be so strong that a large number of Seminaries all around the world have begun assert the historical and scientific reliability of the Bible...

...with the birth of the modern creationism and apologetics, a revival set in motion among the evangelical Christians. This group became quite vocal and aggressive in the sixties, and by seventies they started exerting significant influence among theologians, thinkers, and the Bible teachers all over the world.

Thousands of apologetic books, hundreds of magazines, and tens of thousands of articles have been produced defending the Bible since. In turn, this has started to diminish the influence of rationalists and radicals on Christians.

From the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century the rationalists had their heyday, snatching away millions of young people from their Christian faith and commitment. The wounds of this loss can been seen in Christendom even today, but at the same time this loss has been greatly minimized now because of the work of Christian apologists.

Today anyone desiring to know about the Bible, and its connection with science, evolution, history, archaeology, has read any number of books on this topic. Literally thousands of titles are available, and he can choose anywhere from the most simple books to the most technically advanced ones. Thus the modern apologetics movement has been able to arrest the way in which rationalists have been bleeding the Christian church.[12]

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## Islamic creationism[edit]

See also: Atheism, Islam and belief in evolution and Atheism vs. Islam

## Islam and belief in creationism/evolution[edit]

### Islam and belief in creationism vs. belief in evolution[edit]

See: Islam and belief in creationism/evolution

### Atlas of Creation[edit]

The Atlas of Creation is a series of Islamic creationist books, written by Adnan Oktar under the pen name Harun Yahya.

The first volume of Atlas of Creation contains over 800 glossy pages and weighs 12 pounds (5.4 kg). The Turkish original was translated into English, German, Chinese, French, Dutch, Italian, Urdu, Hindi and Russian.

Tens of thousands of copies of the book have been sent, on an unsolicited basis to schools and to prominent researchers and research institutes throughout Europe and the United States.

The books caused a furor in Europe and the Committee on Science and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe issued a report.

According to Time magazine, "The source of the funds that support Yahya's Science Research Foundation remains a well-kept secret."[13]

## See also[edit]

* The International Association For Creation
* Global Christianity

* New Atheism as a reaction to creationism

* Desecularization of secular Europe in the 21st century

* Desecularization

* Global atheism

## External links[edit]

* Creation Invasion in Europe by Answers in Genesis
* Global creationism is growing

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ Creationism spreading in Europe
2. ↑ Evolution rejected by hundreds of millions of Muslims and evangelicals, Vancouver Sun, October 4, 2014
3. ↑ Evolution rejected by hundreds of millions of Muslims and evangelicals, Vancouver Sun, October 4, 2014. 9:12 am
4. ↑ Two views about how Darwinism stays in place, with but one difference
5. ↑ When Will China Become the World’s Largest Christian Country?, Slate
6. ↑ In China, a church-state showdown of biblical proportions
7. ↑ Journal of Church and State, Desecularization: A Conceptual Framework by Vyacheslav Karpov, 2010
8. ↑ Peter L. Berger, “The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview,” in The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, ed. Peter L. Berger (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999)
9. ↑ Pentecostalism – Protestant Ethic or Cargo Cult?, Peter Berger, July 29, 2010
10. ↑ Atheist author and advocate is absolutely TERRIFIED about the future growth of pentecostal Christianity, Examining Atheism, March 2019
11. ↑ Intelligent Design's Secret Weapon: The World by David Klinghoffer October 3, 2014 11:53 AM
12. ↑ Introduction To Integrated Christian Apologetics, Dr. Johnson C. Philip & Dr. Saneesh Cherian
13. ↑ In France, a Muslim Offensive Against Evolution