Creationism

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Creationism \Cre*a"tion*ism\ (-?z'm), n.
     The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human
     being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to
     traducianism.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  creationism
       n : the literal belief in the account of creation given in the
           Book of Genesis; "creationism denies the theory of
           evolution of species"

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  creationism n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software
     designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly
     magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally
     talented programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good
     designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between
     one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and
     an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea is
     always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the planning
     models beloved of {management}, they are generally ignored.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  creationism
       
          The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can
          be completely specified in advance and then painlessly
          magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of
          normally talented programmers.  In fact, experience has shown
          repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary,
          exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small
          handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user
          population - and that the first try at a big new idea is
          always wrong.  Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit
          the planning models beloved of {management}, they are
          generally ignored.
       
          [{Jargon File}]