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21 Jul 2014, 12:52 am

Christianity/islam and evolution are though. problem is most creationists adhere to either religion thus they get conflated. Evolution doesn't entail that a deity couldn't have intelligently designed the universe. That's beyond the scope of evolution. Deists believe that God created a universe with rational laws and left it alone.


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21 Jul 2014, 1:36 am

Well yes, but you are taking a very different deinition of creationism. Most creationists in the usual sense are not Deists, they are Theists who believe in the inerrancy of the religious text that holds true to their religion


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21 Jul 2014, 1:55 am

DentArthurDent wrote:
Well yes, but you are taking a very different deinition of creationism. Most creationists in the usual sense are not Deists, they are Theists who believe in the inerrancy of the religious text that holds true to their religion


sadly a lot of rational creationists get lumped in with these theists and conflated.


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