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To: knarf
Evolutionists don't want a GOD ... creationists do.

Wrong. Most evolutionists are theists. Indeed most evolutionists, being theists, are creationists (just not, of course, in the antievolution/antigeology/etc sense of the term).

You talk about "validating the polarization of thought process". Well, you just did it.

Granted we all use the shorthand "creationist" here when we actually mean "antievolutionary creationist". But here you're extending this usage beyond the point where that limited and specific meaning is understood from context, and instead implying a universal and unexceptioned dichotomy between "creationists" and "evolutionists".

Properly speaking a "creationist" is anyone who accepts a (usually theological) doctrine of creation. Such a person may or may not reject evolution, an ancient earth, and such, and may hold any of a number of differing views regarding the relationship between science and religion.

231 posted on 06/18/2007 11:48:14 AM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis
Damn, you're good at hidin' trees.

I just got home from a 16 hr day and my mind just couldn't unscramble all those words.

I'll try to remember to come back here Saturday.

264 posted on 06/18/2007 4:48:28 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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