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To: USConstitutionBuff
Your definition, unique to yourself...

The dictionary definitions are posted on this thread. I did not write the Webster's 1828 Dictionary, the 1847 BUCH tr. Hagenbach’s Hist. Of Doctr. II., the 1872 LIDDON Elem. Relig. iii. 102., the GRAY Nat. Sc. & Rel. 89, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 1969, The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language (1971), or The New World Dictionary of the American Language, 1980. But you are certainly entitled to use your Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, 2003, your Merriam Online, and whatever others you can find. The definitions are there for everyone reading this to see.

... is so imprecise that it embraces everyone except atheists, including myself.

Even if that were stipulated, what is the logical connection between (wholly assumed) imprecision, and your accusation of the moral turpitude of lying on my part? The mere fact that I refuse to use a word in the way that you insist I use it?

Cordially,

152 posted on 11/03/2005 10:08:01 AM PST by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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To: Diamond
Whatever. The statement that the Founding Fathers were Creationists is so incorrect it is asinine to defend it. I don't really care to go over the same ground over and over again. The Founders were not even all Christians, let alone Biblical literalists in regard to Genesis; and you know this. So it is a lie to ascribe to them a philosophy that they did not share. And it is sloppy usage of the word 'Creationist' with a definition so imprecise that it includes millions who would definitely not include themselves.
153 posted on 11/03/2005 10:14:38 AM PST by USConstitutionBuff
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