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10. BACKGROUND OF EVOLUTIONISM AND CREATIONISM

Among the original premises of the doctrine evolutionism there are the following:

1) the hypothesis of universal evolution, or macroevolution (from inanimate matter to living matter). - Nothing confirmed;

2) spontaneous generation of the living in the inanimate. - Nothing confirmed;

3) such spontaneous generation occurred only once. - Nothing confirmed;

4) unicellular organisms gradually evolved into multicellular organisms. - Nothing confirmed;

5) there must be many transitional forms in the macro-evolutionary scheme (from fish to amphibians, from amphibians to reptiles, from reptiles to birds, from reptiles to mammals);

6) the similarity of living beings is a consequence of the "general law of evolution";

7) evolutionary factors explainable from the point of view of biology are considered as sufficient to explain the development from the simplest forms to highly developed ones (macroevolution);

8) geological processes are interpreted in terms of very long time periods (geological evolutionary uniformitarianism). - Highly controversial;

9) the process of deposition of fossil remains of living organisms occurs within the framework of the gradual layering of fossil rows.

Relevant counter-premises of the doctrine creationism are also based on faith, but have a self-consistent and factual explanation:

1) the whole Universe, the Earth, the living world and man were created by God in the order described in the Bible (Gen. 1). This position is included in the basic premises of biblical theism;

2) God created, according to a reasonable plan, both unicellular and multicellular organisms, and in general all types of flora and fauna organisms, as well as the crown of creation - man;

3) the creation of living beings happened once, because they can continue to reproduce themselves;

4) evolutionary factors explainable from the point of view of biology (natural selection, spontaneous mutations) change only the existing basic types (microevolution), but cannot violate their boundaries;

5) the similarity of living beings is explained by the single plan of the Creator;

6) geological processes are interpreted in terms of short time periods (catastrophe theory);

7) the process of deposition of fossil remains of living organisms occurs within the framework of a catastrophic model of origin.

The fundamental difference between the doctrines of creationism and evolutionism lies in the difference in worldview premises: what underlies life - a reasonable plan or blind chance? These different premises of both doctrines are equally unobservable and cannot be tested in scientific laboratories.

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