Since all Christians are, by definition, Creationists, the idea of Creationism is as old as The Bible. Why do you choose to dirty up a whole people and an entire religion with what you consider a denigratory, disparaging, and scurrilous pejorative term?
Many Christians have varying and specific ideas about Creation. So . . . there are “good” Christians and there are “bad” Christians? According to allmendream, only the “bad” Christians shall be known as “Creationists”? Do you perhaps propose that the “bad” Christians wear armbands? Or, would a large “C” branded on their foreheads be a better solution?
I know of no Christian who does not, as an article of faith, believe that God created the Universe. Do you? Even the unconventional Thomas Jefferson believed that God created Mankind and the Universe.
With all the simple-minded directness of a three-year old, you begin in typical propagandist fashion with a bait & switch tactic: starting with a specific target (“special” creationism, and - later in the same sentence – “modern creationists”), which you immediately drop for the generic term “creationism.” You’ve had conversations with very scientifically sophisticated Christians (much to your detriment, it must be said), so you know it is a gross misstatement to accuse them of being anti-science. You might as well accuse them all of being lactose intolerant, for all the sense it would make.
Aside from the generic term Creationist, or Creationism, there are any number of terms used to describe certain Christian Creationist ideas: Young Earth Creationism, Old Earth Creationism, Day-Age Creationism, Gap Creationism, Evolution Creationism, Modern Geocentrism Creationists, Omphalos hypothesis Creationism, Creation science Creationism, Progressive Creationism, Special Creationism, Neo Creationism, Intelligent design Creationism, Creation Literalism, Evolution Theist Creationism, Micro-Evolutionary Creationism, Progressive Creationism, Flat Earther Creationism, “hard core” Creationism, Modern Creationism (not proposed as an exhaustive list). Be specific, and identify with whom it is you have a quarrel. Stop trying to dirty up a whole culture with your calumnious insults
Who gave you the authority to hijack the lexicon and arbitrarily alter the meaning of terms? That’s the tactic of those who look to smear a whole people by demeaning their identity. 0bamatrons and admirers of Goebbels would applaud your calumny. Not many others.
And you are a one trick pony, and that pony is lame.
Everyone here knows what I mean when I say creationist and I could provide the most common dictionary definition to you for the dozenth time, but you bore me troll.
I am a tyrannical evolution pusher in that I know biology and know that knowing biology entails understanding the theory.
Science should be taught in science class.