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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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 (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [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 (13 Mar 01) [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}]
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