Definition of: creationism

(krē·ā′shən·iz′əm) noun
1. The doctrine that the universe was originally brought into existence without preexistent material by the word of God, and also that new species or forms of being have been successively produced by the direct formative exercise of the Divine wisdom and power.
2. The doctrine that God creates a new soul whenever a human being begins to live: distinguished from traducianism. Also cre·a′· tion·al·ism.
—cre·a′tion·ist noun
—cre·a′tion· is′tic, cre·a′tion·al·is′tic adjective