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Hi, Prodigy.Welcome to EvC!For the sake of full disclosure, I also call myself a theistic evolutionist, although, in practice, I’m generally a naturalistic evolutionist.A theistic evolutionist is an evolutionist. The only difference between a theistic evolutionist and a naturalistic evolutions is that the theistic evolutionist inserts God in some places or at least leaves room for Him. A person who accepts micro-evolution, but not macro-evolution, is not a theistic evolutionist. Your views on the subject do not fit the common understanding of the term theistic evolutionist. This is probably a topic for another thread, but let me make a brief comment here. If you would like to continue the discussion, you can probably use the search function to search for information, and you’ll likely find a couple open threads appropriate for this topic (or, you could start a new one in the Proposed New Topics forum).Mutations, by definition, add genetic information. Take a sequence: Enter mutation: You now have a new sequence that you didn’t have before. New information has been added to the gene pool.

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Hi, Prodigy. Based on what you've written so far, you sound like you fit into the Old Earth Creationist camp.Virtually all creationists/IDists today accept microevolution. Many creationists of all stripes accept speciation (generally more common among OECs than YECs). All of both subgroups draw the line at "kinds," and only disagree about what constitutes a "kind": your belief of cutting it off at the genus is pretty standard.Your belief in an allegorical Genesis is typical of Day-Age Creationism or Gap Creationism.You also may fit with the "front-loading" club: the people who believe that God started life with all the genetic information it needed to diversify and adapt, and life has since been "devolving" by losing genetic information through mutation and adaptation.

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