I think creationism is... a kind of category mistake, as if the Bible were a theory like other theories... if creationism is presented as a stark alternative theory alongside other theories I think there's just been a jarring of categories... My worry is creationism can end up reducing the doctrine of creation rather than enhancing it, (Bates 2006:1).
But more specifically, the Christian doctrine of creation makes the question of evil particularly pressing.
In Christianity these matters have included the doctrine of creation, the Trinity, and the Incarnation of Jesus Christ.
Arguing for the Christian doctrine of creation, he composed a treatise, now lost, "On the Eternity of the World," contradicting the 5th-century Neoplatonist Proclus.
Heavy debate has attended the relation between the Christian doctrine of creation and the cosmological and evolutionary theories of the natural sciences.
A doctrine of creation must contain or suggest the manner in which all cultural meanings, both empirical and abstract, constitute an integral totality.
All we need to say for the doctrine of creation to work is that 'what is, depends' — everything is not there solely of its own action".
What the doctrine of creation says is that there is a relationship between everything and what we can only call another act which sustains.
In regard to the relationship of humanity to the world, many Eastern religions (especially Hinduism) have a definite skeptically tinged negative view of all reality, which is especially pronounced in contrast to the Christian doctrine of creation.
