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To: YHAOS
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)

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?
257 posted on 02/16/2009 4:45:58 PM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
I thought I bolded the part of the quote that read . . .

Yeah, and I was talking about the part that begins, “Creationism is the belief that the earth and universe and the various kinds of animals and plants was created by God or some other supreme being . . .” and then goes on to discuss some of the modifiers creating less general meanings of the term.

277 posted on 02/16/2009 8:41:56 PM PST by YHAOS
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