[Ancapistani]

I strongly disagree.

I would consider myself a "creationist", in that I believe than human beings were created by God, for a purpose, and with intent. I also believe that the mechanism through which human beings came about is entirely understandable and is well-described through our current understanding of evolution via natural selection. My beliefs are not at all at odds with scientific understanding because they focus on "why" - not "how".

The people I believe you're referencing are usually called "Young Earth Creationists". They, as a group, reject the vast majority of mainstream understanding of biology, geology, and astrophysics.

[sshine]

> I would consider myself a "creationist", in that I believe than human beings were created by God [...]

How is this definition of "creationist" any different than that of "Christian"?

Why overload the word "creationist" with a meaning that is equivalent to "Christian"?

> The people I believe you're referencing are usually called "Young Earth Creationists".

Century Dictionary (1897) defines creationism in this sense as "The doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by the fiat of an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed." [...] Creationist (n.) in an "anti-Darwin" sense is attested by 1859 in a letter of Darwin's, and it is said to be used in Darwin's unpublished writings as far back as 1842.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/creationism

It seems "Old Earth Creationism" either predates Darwin, or it's a more recent attempt to namesquat.

[p_j_w]

>The people I believe you're referencing are usually called "Young Earth Creationists".

That's who I and GP were referring to.

[BrandoElFollito]

Could you please elaborate a bit on how you see the coexistence of

- a god that creates humans

- and evolution?

Specifically, what is his role and actions to go from a cell billions years ago to the human we know since 100k years?

Has he programmed evolution so that it takes a specific path (so it is not evolution because it takes randomness), or created humans but let the rest of nature evolve (but that would probably fit the young earth creationism you mentioned)? Or something else?

[Ancapistani]

God set up the conditions under which the Universe operates. Omniscience means that He was well aware of what would result, up to and including human beings.

It is an admittedly untestable assertion, which is why I don’t ask anyone else to believe it :).