Non-creationists like to use the term *creationist* to imply YEC.
Not everyone who is a creationist is the sort of YEC that the non-creationists love to deride.
That’s the same kind of broad brushing that occurs when someone claims that all evos are liberal, God hating atheists. Most evolutionists would object to that, would they not?
I certainly do object to that.
And you can be a HUGE help here metmom. You must not have been paying attention to the Ham/Nye debate threads here lately, but anti-evolution Freepers have come down almost exclusively on the side of Ken Ham's Young Earth Creationism, which posits that the Earth is literally 6,000 years old, all animals originated on the Ark, and that the global flood several thousand years ago is responsible for all geology.
This is, admittedly, quite different from Intelligent Design, which has a large following in the conservative community and is generally seen as not very scientific in the mainstream science community, but light years ahead of "flood geology". The adherents to Intelligent Design, spearheaded by the Discovery Institute, have actively tried to marginalize Ham and distance themselves from his literal Biblical creationism. They see equalling ID and YEC as pejorative.
My question for you is why Freepers seem to have TOTALLY ABANDONED Intelligent Design and decided to support 6,000 year old creationism. Do they do not know there's a difference and that they are mutually contradictory?