== == Young Earth Creationism is one of two streams into which
Creationism can be divided (the other being Old Earth Creationism
which also accepts a divine creator, but agrees with mainstream
science that the scientific evidence points to the world being
immensely old and that species have evolved through the process of
evolution).
Young Earth Creationism is a world-view that interprets
scientific evidence based on a literal or semi-literal reading of
the Biblical book of Genesis and thus teaches that the world is
only about 6,000 years old. Young Earth Creationists believe that
living things were created by God much as we know them today and
that the various species have diversified within the genetic pool
of their original kind.