But bro, isn't that absolutely a shallow understanding? How could one base this whole creationists are ignorant in science and are dishonest as a broad colour to paint from some stuff they see on TV? I can understand a few people who are innocent and are uninformed but how about some who claim to be highly educated, almost scholars and philosophers of science who have made this judgement? Yet, now I can understand how all of this has come to pass. Thanks for the contribution.
It is definitely very shallow, and most people are shallow and discussing shallow things in a shallow way, for the sake of ease and convenience. It is far too difficult and cumbersome to account for every possible nuance and distinction in how a term might be used, so generally people use easy pastiches and stereotypes and quick references to just a certain major type or popular type or "straw man" or whatever. Its just for the sake of speed and it would slow down dialogue or getting to the point too much if people in casual dialogue were to not be as shallow as they are.
Almost all Theists, people who believe in God in the most typical fashion, are Creationists in the sense of "people who believe that God is Creator" one way or another, and would even argue as such that this is their belief and why, but they are not the same as this movement that people are typically referring to who are coming out of Evangelicals or something, they don't represent all Theists with their arguments at all, and they frequently focus on denying evolution, whereas I am a theist, and I believe Allah controls and invented Evolution in every sense, even the notion of it, beside controlling every nuance of it and what happens and what breeds with what etc or the entire histories behind things.
Now when people are saying "Creationists deny Evolution", I come along and confuse the matter by saying "I am a Creationist and I insist upon Evolution as real", when they were never at all even referring to me, but to this particular group of fundamentalist literalist typically Christian but now sometimes Muslim people who try to say that their books are entirely literally and as cartoony as their imaginations and that God never evolved anything, that things didn't develop and grow and change and come out of the water, and didn't follow normal stages, but were historically just zap there (which could happen, but doesn't appear to be what happened). I'd be confusing people by saying I'm one of them or really like them, its like me saying I'm a Homosexual. I'm not a Homosexual, the Homosexuals have taken over the name, they have taken over the term "Gay". I'm a happy guy, I'm gay in that sense, but now when people say Gay they are meaning not every nuance of the word or possibility, but just the homosexuals in particular, men who want sex with men or are attracted sexually to other men. I'd be confusing people if I said "Hey, I'm gay too!".
I'm probably gayer than most gay people, but I'm no homo. Now someone can say "homo what? homo sapien? Homo these days typically is used to refer to homosexuals, I'm a qualified homo sapien, homo erectus, I have all my badges.
So, this group of sometimes educated seeming "hicks" have come up with their resistance to modern science and have called themselves Creationists. They try to make there be an incompatibility between scriptures and science, they are also deceivers, liars, and however noble they may think their intentions are, they are mainly working harm and trying to take people backwards. These are the Creationists. So either we can try to reclaim this word, and might as well reclaim Gay and Queer too while we're at it, or we can let them have their idiotic terminology that they wish for, and let it be what makes them stigmatized and dissociate ourselves from them.
Nazi means National Socialism. I believe that the Government should socially support the people, that a Nation should only function to protect and benefit its people. I'm a freaking Nazi? Calling myself a Nazi will get me beaten up and shot at, no freaking way do I want that, plus the jackasses called Nazis today and the Nazi party of history all refer to freaks that I want nothing to do with, who were bad, even liars themselves, and connected to all sorts of terrible racism and genocidal thinking. I can't say that "I believe that National Socialism should mean anyone who thinks a government should socially support its people and provide all sorts of free benefits for those within the Nation". When someone says "Nazi" today, they mean a racist, white pride, anti-Jewish, anti-other, type of hate group person, they don't mean a person who wants the country to provide free social benefits and advantages to those who are its citizens and supporting it through taxes or whatever.
So this specific group has taken on the term Creationist, and people are shallow, and they mean only the shallowest reference, most likely to this group who denies evolution, the denial of evolution is just another shortcut shallow way that people clarify who they are dealing with talking about. I can't be a "Creationist" as they mean it, because I believe in evolution. That is just how monkey-men humans are, they are simple and shallow and using shortcuts in thinking and speaking, using vague generalizations that make it easy to quickly communicate their feelings or ideas.
So, to spare people confusion, its probably best to avoid confusing terminology which might mislead them towards stereotypes when we are trying to be clear about our own individual thinking. Its like a Mormon claiming to be a Mainstream Christian, they absolutely are not, their theology is totally different from mainstream or popular Christianity, if one says "Hey look at that Christian, that person has Christian beliefs", generally Mormon theology isn't going to be what they mean in particular, so it can confuse and mislead as well.
I can not even represent mainstream Islam, because mainstream Islam at this point differs on some points, even though I am a Muslim, and God knows I am a Muslim, but I deny a variety of things the modern or current Muslims tend to say, and even to identify myself as Muslim in public would lead to misunderstandings, confusions, false stereotypes applied to me, wrong assumptions. So I say I'm nothing, non-religious, which is an easy way to say "don't bother me about it, I'm not interested" even though I'm hyper-religious, a religious fundamentalist and extremist even, all I think about and talk about and do every day is religion religion religion, but this would again confuse people, make them think wrongly, so they have to be told "non-religious" which actually just mean "not what you would think if I were to say religious, you dummy". Its necessary seeming when dealing with the human apes. They are shallow. I am "non-religious" as in not practicing any of the religions they likely know or could think of or have any understanding about.
If someone approached me with hostility regarding religion, I'd deny religion, and say I'm an Atheist, or deny God, but this would not even be a lie, because what they are calling God is not anything I believe in at all. I completely avoid the topic as much as possible in any discussions in real life mainly with strangers or outside, same with politics, whatever might be controversial or anything or create disputes or hostilities, which is why I enjoy venting so freely online about everything in a casual way, I live a double life in a sense, not wanting to appear at all anything worthy of any thought or comment except that such is a good person that they know very little about their specific thoughts or beliefs.
If I proclaimed I'm a Creationist, it would create a huge mess, everyone would get wrong ideas about me, all the shallow stupid thoughts would then be asked of me. What a mess! Ok, I'm going to eat some pasta now.