Catholic
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creationist
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organisations.
Cercle d'Étude Scientifique et Historique
Cercle d'Étude Scientifique et Historique (CESHE), was founded in 1971 in
Belgium
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to preserve and disseminate the work of French scholar Fernand Crombette, whose works include 38 volumes and two atlases that deal with geography, the Flood, astronomy and the pre-history of Mediterranean peoples. In 2008, an English-language affiliate was established in North America.
United Kingdom
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with ties to both the
Traditionalist Catholic
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movement and conservative vernacular Catholics. The stated aims of the Society are "to inform Catholics and others of the scientific evidence supporting
special creation
In creationism, special creation is a belief that the universe and all life in it originated in its present form by fiat or divine decree.
Catholicism uses the phrase "special creation" in two different senses:
* in the context of theistic evolu ...
as opposed to
evolution
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, and that the true discoveries of Science are in conformity with Catholic doctrines." According to the
British Centre for Science Education The British Centre for Science Education (BCSE) is a volunteer-run organization in the United Kingdom that has the goal of "countering creationism within the UK" and was formed to campaign against the teaching of creationism in schools.
Activiti ...
, which maintains a list of anti-evolution groups, the Daylight Origins Society, "doesn't appear to cooperate at all with mainstream creationist groups which are all basically
Protestant
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,
calvinist
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ic and
evangelical
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," and that "as far as
hey
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Music
* Hey (band), a Polish rock band
Albums
* ''Hey'' (Andreas Bourani album) or the title song (see below), 2014
* ''Hey!'' (Julio Iglesias album) or the title song, 1980
* ''Hey!'' (Jullie album) or the title s ...
can make out, it is not very active."
The Daylight Origins Society was founded in 1977 by John G. Campbell as the Counter Evolution Group. His origins science magazine was relaunched in 1991 under its present name, as a branch of CESHE. The current secretary of the Society is Anthony Nevard, a retired school teacher living in Hertfordshire. Polish academic and
Member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
Maciej Giertych
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is an honorary member of the Society.
The Society have a website and issues a quarterly Catholic creationist journal titled ''Daylight'', published beginning in 1977 by Campbell, and after 1991, published and edited by Nevard. Its writers have included Giertych and it has reprinted works by historical Christian authors, including G. K. Chesterton and
C. S. Lewis
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. In 2010 they launched a techni-colour cover edition of ''Daylight'', and the magazine is still in print today (2015).
The Kolbe Center for the study of Creation
The Kolbe Center is a Catholic organisation based in Mount Jackson, Virginia, in the United States. The Kolbe Center was founded on December 8, 2000.
Other organisations
*Institute for Science and Catholicism (United States) was founded in 2015. It publishes the book Creation, Evolution, and Catholicism: A Discussion for Those Who Believe in print and ebook format to promote the renewal of a Catholic theology of creation and a new science/faith synthesis based on sound scientific data and a serious approach to the Holy Scriptures in accordance with longstanding Church Tradition.
*Morning Star (
United States
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) was founded in 1994. It publishes a journal called ''The Watchmaker''.
*Centre d’Etudes et de Prospective sur la Science/Center for Studies and Prospective on Science (
France
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)
*The International Institute for Culture (United States), whose aim is Catholic cultural renewal, presented a lecture series on "Evolution: The Untold Story" with the theme "Latest Scientific Discoveries Challenge Darwinian Evolution’s Fitness to Survive" in October 2009. It featured intelligent design proponents
Michael Behe
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National Catholic Bioethics Center
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*The schismatic and
sedevacantist
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Relationship between religion and science
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Creation–evolution controversy
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Creation science
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Young Earth creationism
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Flood geology
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