Scientific Creationism: Adding Imagination to Scripture
Creation Evolution Journal Scientific Creationism: Adding
Imagination to Scripture Stanley Rice  Scientific creationism
has been interpreted by most observers as a resurgence of belief
in biblical literalism. I have surveyed the material of sixteen
years of the creationist journal Creation Research Society
Quarterly and have discovered that many creationist beliefs,
while based upon biblical literalism, consist largely of
extrabiblical and occasionally wild imagination. Therefore, a
discussion of the appropriateness or the inappropriateness of
biblical literalism can only be a partial treatment of the
controversy.  Most theologians have not only rejected the
literalist approach to the Bible but insist that such an
interpretation was never intended by the Bible writers. Bernard
Ramm called the version of literalism that is specific enough to
give rise to scientific creationism "hyper-orthodox" (1954).
Bruce Vawter made a distinction between the "literali