What to call your beliefs about origins?

Naturalis Historia has posted an excellent web page, which provides a flow chart for determining what your beliefs about origins are usually called, and also has descriptions of the major categories of belief on origins. (Young-earth creationist, etc.) This post must have been a lot of work.

You may also want to look at my own web page, which attempts to do more or less the same thing.

Thanks for your interest.

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Thanks for looking!

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Christians may not be nearly as divided on origins as we usually hear that they are

Christianity Today has published a report on a poll, which asked some in-depth questions about the beliefs of Christians on origins. (Not just, for example, "do you believe in a literal Adam and Eve?" But "How strongly do you believe this?" "How important is this belief?")

The results indicate that Christians aren't nearly as polarized as we seem to be. I hope that's true.

The title "Rethinking the Origins Debate," might lead a reader to think that it's about the recent Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate. The article doesn't mention that debate.

Thanks for reading. See the report.