Special creation
Religious term with multiple uses / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In creationism, special creation is a belief that the universe and all life in it originated in its present form by fiat or divine decree.
Catholicism uses the phrase "special creation" in two different senses:
- in the context of theistic evolution to refer to the "special creation of humans", a point of hominization where evolved near-human animals were given souls by God, and became fully human; this belief is also called special transformism by some scholars.[citation needed]
- to refer to the doctrine of immediate or special creation of each human soul