What are the similarities and differences between design and creation?
Logically, a design theory is not a creation theory (as explained above) but there are similarities. Sociologically, there are connections between design and creation. Most advocates of Intelligent Design (ID) are monotheists — mainly Christians, but also Jews and Moslems — who think the designer is God. The “big tent of ID” includes mainly old-earth progressive creationists (OECs) and young-earth creationists (YECs), with evolutionary creationists excluded. Most leaders of ID are OECs who think the earth and universe are billions of years old, but they welcome YECs into the “big tent” community of ID. Why? OECs and YECs both criticize neo-Darwinism and agree that “design-action did occur,” and both (along with evolutionary creationists) oppose an atheistic worldview. The leaders of YEC have formed an uneasy semi-alliance with ID, despite its toleration of old-earth views and its lack of emphasis on Genesis. / What are the mutual benefits? The anti-evolution aspect of YEC gets a “free
