Main Entry: cre·a·tion·ism

Pronunciation: \-shə-ˌni-zəm\

Function: noun

Date: 1880

: a doctrine or theory holding that matter, the various forms of life, and the world were created by God out of nothing and usually in the way described in Genesis — compare evolution 4b

— cre·a·tion·ist \-shə-nist\ noun or adjective