young-earthadj.
/ˌjʌŋ ˈəːθ/, U.S. /ˈˌjəŋ ˈərθ/ attributive. Designating a form of creationism (creationism n. 2) which holds that the universe and living organisms were divinely created relatively recently and within a comparatively short period of time; of or relating to this belief.Young-earth creationism typically arises from a literal interpretation of the Biblical account of creation and its narrative of early human history, from which the Earth is deduced to be some six to ten thousand years old.
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young-earth1979
1979 Jrnl. Amer. Sci. Affiliation 31 125/2 [He] touches on some differences which evolutionist and young-earth creationist perspectives make regarding current topics such as pollution, population, [etc.].
1988 Third Way Sept. 30/1 The standard-bearer for ‘young earth creationism’ in the 1920s and '30s was the Seventh-Day Adventist teacher George McCready Price.
1995 F. R. Howe in R. B. Zuck Vital Apologetic Issues viii. 109 Defenders of a young-earth model rest on the truth of the inerrant Word of God.
2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory ix. 986 Modern creationists, particularly the ‘young earth’ dogmatists who must cram an entire geological record into the few thousand years of a literal Biblical chronology..have always relied, as a primary strategy, upon the misquotation of scientific sources.
Compounds
young-earth creationist n. a believer in or advocate of young-earth creationism.
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1979 [see main sense].
1992 R. L. Numbers Creationists xiii. 279 Flood geologists celebrated in 1979, when a well-known young-earth creationist..finally acquired a legitimate Ph.D. degree in geology.
2012 Time Out N.Y. 25 Oct. 60/3 He also happens to be a Young Earth creationist, one of those right-leaning religious folks who discount the theory of evolution and believe a divine being brought the planet's inhabitants to life only a few thousand years ago.
Derivatives
young-ˈearther n. = young-earth creationist n. at Compounds.
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1984 M. Pitman Adam & Evol. 237 Chalk cliffs are not easily explained by young earthers.
1986 Faith &Thought 112 24 Bryan was no Young Earther and privately accepted evolution for the whole animal kingdom excluding man.
1996 Harper's Mag. Nov. 52/2 Young-earthers read the Bible as a scientific source document and labor to find evidence of a world created by God in six days about 6,000 years ago.
2007 N.Y. Times Mag. 25 Nov. 32/1 Young-earthers treat the words of Genesis as irrefutable fact.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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