Evolutionary creation, also presented as Evolutionary creationism, is the religious

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that God as Creator brings about his plan through processes of

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. It is a type of

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which, like

theistic evolution Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution) is a theological view that God creates through laws of nature. Its religious teachings are fully compatible with the findings of modern science, including biologica ...

, accepts modern science, but there are

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differences. Its proponents, who tend to be conservative

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, hold that God is actively involved in evolution to a greater extent than theistic evolutionists.

Proponents

In June 2003,

Denis Lamoureux Denis O. Lamoureux (born May 27, 1954) holds a professorial chair of science and religion at St. Joseph's College at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has doctoral degrees in dentistry, theology, and biology. The author o ...

wrote an article which appeared in ''

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'' on "Evolutionary Creation: Beyond the Evolution vs. Creation Debate", and in 2008 he published a theological book on ''Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution'' aimed both at anti-evolution Christians including

young Earth creationists Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that the Earth and its lifeforms were created by supernatural acts of the Abrahamic God between approximately 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. In its most widespre ...

, and at those looking to confirm their reconciliation of faith with evolutionary science. His main argument that Genesis presents "science and history of the day" as "incidental vessels" to convey spiritual truths would be unlikely to persuade young Earth creationists. The faith position presented by Lamoureux helps put over his message, but makes the book unsuitable for use in U.S. public schools. Lamoureux rewrote his article as a 2009 journal paper, incorporating excerpts from his books, in which he noted the similarities of his views to theistic evolution, but objected to that term as making evolution the focus rather than creation, and distanced his beliefs from the deistic or more liberal beliefs included in theistic evolution. There is diversity among evolutionary creationists in explaining how these two concepts fit together.

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