Often called "creation science" or "scientific creationism."

1. The world (and the universe) is less than 30,000 years old.

2. All that we see was created in six twenty-four hour days.

3. All the "kinds" were directly created by God.

4. There was a worldwide flood that occurred about 4,500 years ago.

5. Most of the sedimentary rock was created by the flood.

6. Microevolution (small changes) is real, macroevolution (large changes) is not.

Sometimes called the "day-age" view.

1. Universe is 10--15 billion years old (Byr), the earth 4.5 Byr.

2. Genesis 1 describes six periods of God's activity, periods which may overlap or generalize about what happened on a particular "day."

3. The creation of plants and animals involved some direct intervention, at other times God guided the natural process.

4. The flood may have been local or worldwide without widespread geological formations resulting, but it did kill all people who were not on the Ark.

5. The geological column was formed gradually and represents earth's history. The gaps in the fossil record are indications of God's ongoing creative work.

6. Microevolution is real, macroevolution is not.

Recent creation and progressive creation are often called "concordance" views because they attempt to make the information of Genesis 1 concordant with scientific views.

1. The universe is 10-15 Byr, the earth 4.5 Byr.

2. Genesis deals with theological not scientific issues. It is a literary or structural narrative not something that tells us how creation happened.

3. There is no direct intervention by God in the creation or development of the universe.

4. Not much discussion of the flood. Geologic strata formed slowly.

5. Gaps in the column are just that-gaps, not evidence of God's work.

6. Microevolution and macroevolution are both real.

For theistic evolutionists Genesis and science are complementary, not concurrent. They discuss some of the same issues but from entirely different worlds of discourse. An example of complementarity would be a chemical description of the composition of ice cream and a person explaining why they love ice cream. Both describe the same object, but from very different, but complementary, perspectives.