The advocates of special creation now mostly eschew pushing "creationism," "creation science," and even "intelligent design" into schools (and ID advocates now claim that they never meant to do so, an obvious falsehood Padian and Matzke 2006).
The problem is not just that special creation is a bad scientific theory; creationism offers no positive theory at all.
Eventually the exasperated young-earthers formed their own society, the Creation Research Society, founded in 1963 to provide scientific support for young-earth creationism, including flood geology and special creation of biological "kinds".
Unfortunately, they often leave out the important qualifier that theistic evolutionists are some of the staunchest foes of creationism as defined by divine intervention and special creation.
The core idea unifying all the various forms of creationism is the conviction that divine intervention, i.e., special creation, is necessary to explain the diversity of life.
Special creation was nothing to boast about.
But Mr. Gauck is his own special creation too.
Thus, special creation has been discarded as a scientific explanation.
Agassiz's belief in special creation also extended to perceptions of race.
During the 1831 36 voyage, he continually resisted Darwin's growing doubts about special creation and the fixity of species.
Darwin's achievement was to explain how such wondrously adapted creatures could arise from a process other than special creation.
