>Are YEC: "Young Earth Creationist"; OEC "Old Earth Creationist";
>and EPS "Evangelical Philosophical Society" descriptive of
>particular organizations or simple shorthand for wide ranges of
>view?<
YEC and OEC (and TE, for Theistic Evolutionist or ID for Intelligent
Design) are generally used as shorthand for wide ranges of view on
this list. However, in arguments such as the Scientific American
list of bogus antievolutionary arguments and the "rebuttals", such
terms (though not these abbreviations) tend to be identified with the
views of a single advocate in order to inaccurately either disparage
or extol a given view. (E.g., claiming that "creationists" are
trying to impose their way through hoodwinking legislatures and
judges, when only some of them do so or claiming that an admission on
the AiG web page that a particular argument is not good indicates
that no "creationist" uses it.)
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G.
Wodehouse, Romance at Droitgate Spa
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