Are Old Earth Creationists and Young Earth Creationists the only Kind of Creationists?
That’s what some people are saying. In his criticism of me Jonathan Badger strongly implies that the only legitimate creationists are the Young Earth Creationists (YEC’s) and the Old Earth Creationists (OEC’s) who still follow the sequence of events in Genesis. He would agree with Denyse O’Leary that Intelligent Design proponents (IDiots) are not creationists because they don’t necessarily adopt a belief in the truth of Genesis. Many would disagree and that’s why you often hear people refer to Intelligent Design as Intelligent Design Creationism. There seems to be little doubt that the intelligent design movement grew out of the (capital C) Creationist movement in the 1980’s. This has been well-documented by Barbara Forrest (left), most prominently at the Dover trial in 2005 and in a lengthy article in Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics (Forrest, 2001). In that article she examines the strategy of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Renewal of Science and Culture (CRSC) an
