The Fossil Wiki is a scientific wiki, and therefore, non-scientific papers, or to a lesser extent, papers not published in scientific journals, are scrutinized for their accuracy. Creationism, which in most cases, entails the belief that the formation of the earth was created by an omnipresent creator in seven days, is not subjected to the same scrutiny as scientific topics are. Fossil Wiki is a wiki centered around paleontology, and the fossil record as seen in terms of evolutionary biology and other scientific principles.