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To: steve harris who wrote (371704)	2/22/2008 9:01:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572789

"Creationism" is usually put in opposition to "evolution" and used to mean something along the lines of "God created people, animals and plants, pretty much as they where today" (I say "pretty much", rather than "just as" because many creationists accept "micro-evolution" within a species, and also of course because species have become extinct, their relative numbers change etc.). If by "creationism" you are talking about the beginning of the universe, or Earth, or life on Earth, than we were talking about two different things using the same term. Evolution is not, and should not be portrayed as (and generally isn't portrayed as) and answer to those questions. What things where like in the early stages of the universe is a cosmological question not a biological one. What things where like at or before the big bang isn't really a question well addressed by any field of science. Even in biology the origin of life is abiogenesis, not evolution. Evolution is change in life once it started. Using evolution in a broader sense, you have "the evolution of the universe", the big bang, stars forming, galaxies forming etc. but usually when you just use the term "evolution" in a context that also includes using the term "creationism" it means biological evolution, and that's how I used the term.