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[[User:Ray Martinez|Ray Martinez]] 13:50, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
[[User:Ray Martinez|Ray Martinez]] 13:50, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
:Because Aschafly doesn't "scale." As Conservapedia grows it will be less and less feasible to ask him to decide everything, so we might as well get used to working things out for ourselves. As a starting point, I'd suggest:
::cre·a·tion·ism, PRONUNCIATION: kr-sh-nzm, NOUN: Belief in the literal interpretation of the account of the creation of the universe and of all living things related in the Bible.[http://www.bartleby.com/61/41/C0734100.html American Heritage dictionary]
::cre·a·tion·ism Pronunciation: \-shə-ˌni-zəm\ Function: noun Date: 1880, a doctrine or theory holding that matter, the various forms of life, and the world were created by God out of nothing and usually in the way described in Genesis — compare evolution 4b [http://209.161.33.50/dictionary/creationism Merriam-Webster online]
:Dictionaries aren't perfect, and Aschlafly believes they're loaded with liberal bias, too, but dictionaries try to document how words are actually used, and if somebody wants to depart from a dictionary definition I think the burden is on them to justify it. And usually such a departure wouldn't be absolute. It would be something more along the lines of: state something like the dictionary definition, ''then'' state something like "However, within the creationist community, a more technical definition is preferred. The American Association of Creation Theorists, in its 1997 ''Handbook of Creationism,'' gives this definition," etc. etc.
:An analogy would be the word "carnivore," whose dictionary definition is meat-eating animal, but which has a technical definition in Zoology as members of the order ''Carnivora''" which include dogs, cats, and seals, but excludes many meat-eating mammals such as bats, humans, an marsupials... and excludes anything that is not a mammal. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 14:05, 12 March 2007 (EDT)