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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
By old-earth creationists do you mean those who are sometimes referred to as believers in 'intelligent design' or 'guided evolution' or something else entirely??

Actually, intelligent design and guided evolution are both 'God in the Gaps theories' that aren't very sound.

The scientintific community that falls into 'old Earth' creationists (for the record, this is my belief) are known as Theistic Evolutionists or Theo-Evolutionists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution

54 posted on 07/30/2007 2:50:04 PM PDT by mnehring (Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
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To: mnehrling

So what is the basic difference between ‘Theistic Evolutionists or Theo-Evolutionists’ and ‘guided evolutionists’? My own belief is to accept all scientific evidence, but reject the theory of macro-natural selection, which taken to its logical conclusion, means that there is not and could not have been a creator of life.

I do not see anything to distinguish among this idea, ‘guided evolution’, or ‘intelligent design’. This is the first time that I have heard about ‘Theistic Evolutionists’ or ‘Theo-Evolutionists’. Any references, or should I just google these terms?
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67 posted on 07/30/2007 3:01:48 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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