Primary Source And Credit Given to: https://www.icr.org/tenets
Slightly Edited For Format And My Added Interjections:
Principles of Scientific Creationism
The physical universe of space, time, matter, and energy has not always existed but was supernaturally created by a transcendent personal Creator who alone has existed for eternity.
The phenomenon of biological life did not develop by natural processes from inanimate systems but was specially and supernaturally created by the Creator.
Each of the major kinds of plants and animals was created functionally complete from the beginning and did not evolve from some other kind of organism. Changes in basic kinds since their first creation are limited to “horizontal” changes (variations) within the kinds or “downward” changes (e.g., mutations, extinctions).
The first human beings did not evolve from animal ancestry but were specially created in fully human form from the start. Furthermore, man’s “spiritual” nature (self-image, moral consciousness, abstract reasoning, language, will, religious nature, etc.) is a supernaturally created entity distinct from mere biological life.
The record of Earth’s history, as preserved in the Earth’s crust, especially in the rocks and fossil deposits, is primarily a record of catastrophic intensities of natural processes, operating largely within uniform natural laws rather than one of gradualism and relatively uniform process rates.
There is much scientific evidence for a relatively recent creation of the earth and the universe, in addition to strong scientific evidence that most of the earth’s fossiliferous sedimentary rocks were formed in an even more recent global hydraulic cataclysm.
Processes today operate primarily within fixed natural laws and relatively uniform process rates. Since these were also created and are daily maintained by their Creator, there is still always the possibility of miraculous intervention in these laws or processes by their Creator.
However, evidence for such intervention should be scrutinized critically because there must be a clear and adequate reason for any such action by the Creator.
The universe and life have somehow been impaired since the completion of creation so that imperfections in structure, disease, aging, extinctions, and other such phenomena result from “negative” changes in properties and processes occurring in an originally perfect created order.
Since the universe and its primary components were created perfectly for their purposes in the beginning by a competent and volitional Creator, and since the Creator remains active in this now-decaying creation, ultimate purposes and meanings in the universe do indeed exist.
Teleological considerations, therefore, are appropriate in scientific studies whenever they are consistent with the actual data of observation. Furthermore, it is reasonable to assume that the creation presently awaits the consummation of the Creator’s purpose.
Although people are finite and scientific data concerning origins are always circumstantial and incomplete, the human mind (if open to the possibility of creation) is able to explore the manifestations of that Creator rationally, scientifically, and teleologically.
My Interjection:
There are young earth creationists and old earth creationists. Materials of adherents of both age views are used on this website.
Other than the statements on the creation timeline, old Earth creationists agree with all or the majority of the tenets on this page.
Brilliant men and women of God are on both sides of the Universe/Earth age debates.
End Of My Interjection.