Yes. And each denomination thinks THEY are the universal church, and everyone else isn't. The Southern Baptists Preachers when I was a kid claimed to have lineages going back to St. Peter, but thought that the Catholics didn't have any such claim. And vice versa.
But, whether you are speaking of denominations or the universal church, the truth applies...both groups held to a literal Genesis interpretation hundreds of years prior to the rise of fundamentalism in the 20's and the 70's creationism (as you speak of it).
"Both" groups? Not with those hundreds of denominations you can't claim just two groups. The effort with printed religious tracts to convince Christian churches to reconcile their belief with science began in the 20's. How many churches did so I have no idea, but the Southern Baptists (the largest denomination in America) that I was a member of had.
During the Scopes trial, there were anti-evolution groups. But the Southern Baptist Church I grew up in the 60's/70's was reconciled with science (or at least didn't argue against it). As was my sainted Grandmother, who was not scientifically literate, yet spoke no ill toward science as today's Christians are doing. She reserved her antagonism for Catholics.
The fact is that there was an affirmative campaign to rediscover literal Genesis in the 70's with the "Creation Scientists". And now with the IDers.
Deny what I witnessed if you want. It will only harden my opinion that every religious person believes *they* are correct, and everyone else is wrong.
My Grandmother was against Catholics. Today's Christians are against science. The bottom line is they're *right* and everyone else is wrong.
"Both groups"= All denominations lumped together as one group and the universal church as another.
Your former preacher, your sainted grandmother, your former Southern Baptist church, 70's creation movement and etc...Nice anecdotal evidence. You seem to have a lot of that (and that only)!
The Christians I know do not "speak with ill" toward science. They just "speak ill" of poor evolutionary assumptions made in the name of science and also of persons, like yourself, who use those assumptions to attack Christianity.
In light of your sweeping generalizations, I would like to clarify...The Bible is right and anyone who stands in opposition to It is wrong.
A broad brush.
You are wrong.