title: Biblical Old Earth Creationism Under Attack: Opposed Evolutionists and Young Earth Creationists
author:  James M. Lowrance 
description: I am a husband, father, grandfather and lifetime contract salesman, with experience in health writing that began in 2004. I completed theological studies with Liberty University in 1996. I formerly served as editor and forum moderator of Thyroid Health for BellaOnline.com and as a general health writer for Suite101.com, where I received Editor's Choice Awards for articles on health subjects.
zlib_text: Article in The Daily Telegraph March 18, 2002
  
  THE absurd row over Emmanuel City Technology College in Gateshead has raised
  an even more absurd confusion, which must be cleared up.
  
  There are not two debating positions, but three. Actually more than three, and
  some of them could be represented as a shaded continuum, but for simplicity
  I'll stick to three.
  
  1) Young Earth Creationists. They believe the world is only thousands of years
  old, based on a literal reading of Genesis (or the Koran, or whatever is their
  holy book).
  
  2) Old Earth Theists. Theirs is a broad church, embracing the great majority
  of educated religious people. They believe in a Divine Creator, but they read
  their creation myth allegorically rather than literally, and accept that the
  world is billions of years old.
  
  With the exception of some Old Earth Creationists, they mostly agree that
  evolution happened, but may allow God some supervisory role. Many think
  evolution was God's ingenious way of accomplishing his crea