- the doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed.
- the doctrine that the true story of the creation of the universe is as it is recounted in the Bible, especially in the first chapter of Genesis.
- the doctrine that God immediately creates out of nothing a new human soul for each individual born.
- the belief that God brings individual human souls into existence at conception or birth
- the doctrine that ascribes the origins of all things to God's acts of creation rather than to evolution
