To: betty boop
creationism n (1880): a doctrine or theory holding that matter, the various forms of life, and the world were created by God out of nothing and usu. IN THE WAY DESCRIBED IN GENESIS compare EVOLUTION
Deist do not believe in Genesis. The accepted meaning of the word 'Creationist' on this board and in general usage today is someone who subscribes to a literal account of Genesis.
Your definition is so broad that everyone except atheists would be included. Therefore the statement "the Founding Fathers were Creationists" is only true insomuch as they were no atheists among them. They were certainly not Creationists in that many did not believe in the Bible, and many Christians such as Thomas Jefferson did not believe in the Bible as written literally.
According your half-assed definition of Creationist a Evolutionary Biologist who is a Deist is a Creationist. They would deny this as their work is on Evolution and they do not subscribe to Creationist literature, Creation Science, and would not find any friends on a Creationist website.
Is any of this getting through or am I talking to a brick wall?
Standing by for repetition without citation of the same regurgitated garbage in .....3.....2.....
To: USConstitutionBuff; betty boop
117 posted on
11/02/2005 11:00:40 AM PST by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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