Absent a trademark filing, anyone who believes that Creation happened whether Christian, Jew, Muslim or whatever has just as much right to call themselves Creationist.
Sure. But none of them do. I've never heard anyone who accepted the theory of evolution call themselves a creationist, and despite asking several times, no one has shown me such an example (from somewhere other than these discussions). I'm talking about what the word means as it is used, not what it could hypothetically mean.
And my point is that this definition of "creationist" isn't something evos came up with to disparage people who believe in creation. You said, in the post I was responding to,
Some want the term narrowly construed to match their seemingly favorite target, the Young Earth Creationists.More recently, metmom referred to "the *creationist* box of the evos making." Your insistence that it's evos who made up the anti-evolution aspect of the term "creationism" is just wrong, historically and according to common usage. You can't change that just by asserting that anyone who believes in Creation is a Creationist.
If you want to start a movement to redefine the word, that's fine with me. Get a bunch of people who believe in an old earth, God as the creator, and evolution to start calling themselves creationists, and maybe your redefinition will eventually become accepted. But in the meantime, don't act like it's just the mean ol' evos who made up this definition you don't like--we're just using the term the YECs asked us to use.
I'll ask again: since many people, as you acknowledge, accept both God the Creator and evolution, and by your standards should be called creationists, what term would you suggest for those who are anti-evolution because it conflicts with their beliefs about Creation?
And if they wish to respond to a demand for a reason why they are anti-evolutionist, then they could say they support "Young Earth Creationism" or "the Intelligent Design Hypothesis" or "Panspermia" or whatever.