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To: VadeRetro
Young Earth Creationists are a subset of creationism, not the whole set. There is also Day-Age Creationism and Old Earth Creationism. If you aren't any of the preceding three, you're probably a theistic evolutionist like several on this board.

Hey, VR, it never occurred to me that I had to slap a label on my forehead just to make progress in life.

Does this sort of thing fall under the "truth in labeling" act?

90 posted on 10/20/2002 8:10:27 PM PDT by betty boop
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To: betty boop
Does this sort of thing fall under the "truth in labeling" act?

Sorry for any inconvenience, BB! I wasn't sure if you knew how most of the world defines creationism. The list of disbeliefs you cited would disqualify you only as a YEC.

Day-Agers still claim Genesis as literal truth, but insist that the six days of creation correspond to long periods of earth's history. Old-Earthers (OECs) often abandon literal Genesis interpretation but will insist that creation was some unspecified number of miracle events with only natural processes operating in-between. OECs still generally deny macroevolution and/or any non-human ancestry for humans. An ID-ist is any of the preceding (YEC, Day-Ager, OEC) being cagey about why he's doing what he's doing.

99 posted on 10/21/2002 6:46:14 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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