Special creation

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In Christian theology, special creation is a term with varying meanings dependent on context.

In creationism, the term refers to 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