Who's who in ID

I'm a foreigner and fairly new to this stuff, so can someone correct my
current assumptions about the ID lobby in America? It might help some
other confused types, you never know.

1. Young Earth Creationists believe the entire universe was created
6,000 years ago, as implied by a popular book of folk tales. And that's
that. Take your dirty atheist physics and git, ye goddam commie!

2. Some cunning YECs think the universe is 6,000 years old (folk tales
again) but that God planted vast amounts of evidence in his creation to
fool us all into thinking it's billions of years old. Hmmm.

3. Old Earth Creationists. I'm not sure about this lot, but let me
guess. A very busy God created heaven and earth a zillion years ago
and then kept intervening to create each and every distinct species?
Including, of course, ourselves.

4. Not sure about this one. Are there IDers who claim God only
intervenes at the molecular level, i.e. tinkers with DNA? How would
that create new species, though? Horses suddenly giving birth to zebras
(much to their mutual surprise and chagrin)?

5. Neo-cons (often former liberals) who don't believe in God but think
religion is a useful tool for maintaining social order, find scientists
far too liberal, and so throw in their lot with the IDers.

6. President George W. Bush. He's in a class of his own...

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Whos who in ID
    ... Young Earth Creationists believe the entire universe was created ... A very busy God created heaven and earth a zillion years ago ... Neo-cons (often former liberals) who don't believe in God but think ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: Why so much opposition to ID
    ... Can you not see that something really should have evidential backing ... > proof, or to stop government funding for SETI type of research, or don't ... > search for God, God does not exist because there is no proof and the bible ... In fact, if the IDers were ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: The Dover Sham
    ... > "unfortunate" student to think about a superior intelligence. ... all whatsoever to do with god. ... there, too, that IDers are just lying to us when they claim it's not ... Creation "Science" Debunked: ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: Tom Bethell is Heroically Confused Again
    ... theological argument for the existence of God. ... author of it's creation. ... you take the IDers' hints literally, ... designer is intervening as we observe, ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: Tom Bethell is Heroically Confused Again
    ... theological argument for the existence of God. ... read all ID books on the subject, but I assume that IDers believe as ... the creationists do, ... designer is intervening as we observe, ...
    (talk.origins)