Re: YEC< OEC, PC, TE, etc.

jeffery lynn mullins (jmullins@wam.umd.edu)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:43:46 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, George Fisher wrote:

> Juli,
> I'm pretty new to this group, and there are others much better
> qualified to respond to your post asking what a "theistic evolutionist" or
> "evolutionary creationist" might be, and why include the word evolution in
> those phrases.
> I'm new enough to all of this that I'm not sure just what
> distinctions are implied by these terms, but I assume that they do believe
> in evolution, as I do, and that they believe in God, as I do. I sense you're
> asking why do we need both. Answering only for myself, as a geologist, my
> work of course brings me in daily contact with the consequences of
> evolution, both organic and inorganic; I can't do without evolution. But my

I am curious as to how work in geology brings one into contact with the
consequences of *organic* evolution. Are you thinking of the ordering of
the fossils?

Jeff