A brief check on my posting history should answer your question. There’s no reason for you to be lost in a fog of confusion.
”Just letting you know what most people mean when they use the term in the U.S. today, and what most people will think you mean when you use it.”
And this is one time-traveler who really appreciates all your help. So much time spent assisting a stranger in a strange land goes far beyond the line of duty. Admirable.
I think I’ll just keep on letting you talk. The more you say, the closer you come to my understanding of the term Creationist. The emphasis seems to be more and more that there exists a generic meaning and then several variations that seem to require further specification (such as you quoted from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Thanks for your reply.
I thought I bolded the part of the quote that read
The focus of this discussion is on a narrower sense of Creationism, the sense that one usually finds in popular writings (especially in America today). Here, Creationism means the taking of the Bible, particularly the early chapters of Genesis, as literally true guides to the history of the universe and to the history of life, including us humans, down here on earth.Are we talking about the sense one usually finds in America today, or some theoretical sense one rarely encounters?