Buzsaw writes:
Everyone from Percy and Jar to YECs have referred to themselves as creationists in that they believe in a supreme god who somehow have been involved in the process of creation.
This excerpt from Wikipedia characterizes how we use the term creationism at EvC Forum:
Wikipedia on Creationism writes:
Creationism has come to be most strongly associated with the branch of Christian fundamentalism in which the book of Genesis is held to provide absolute truths about the creation of kinds of life and often, in more literal faiths, the age of the universe and of the earth.
Another way of looking at is that here at EvC Forum, and at all other venues where this debate takes place, creationism is just the short form for Biblical creationism. I have advised Jar a couple of times in the past that his preferred definition of creationism, though legitimate, is not the one we're using here. Certainly the name of this site (EvC stands for Evolution versus Creationism) would make no sense if we used Jar's definition, since evolution is not in opposition to his definition.
Discussion of definitions should be confined to threads designated for that purpose. In all other threads, the definition of creationism is as I've described.
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