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Louis Vuitton Bags the "old earth" version of creationism, is far more prevalent among evangelical intellectuals. It basically rejects evolution but affirms science's longstanding and lopsided support for the planet's vastly ancient age.A third alternative is the newer "intelligent design" approach, which deems the Darwinian "natural selection" model of evolutionary theory to be improbable and posits that some designing force lies behind nature, but does not explicitly define this as the God of Judaism and Christianity.Collins and his colleagues dismiss those three views in favor of "theistic evolution," which affirms that the biblical God was the creator of all earthly organisms, humanity included, and used as his method the standard evolutionary scenario of gradual natural selection among genetic mutations across eons. A non-random Internet survey of teachers at evangelical seminaries in 2009 showed that 46 percent accept that concept. Giberson estimates that "the overwhelming number in biology departments at Christian colleges would be fine with this," though a 2005 survey found that only 27 percent identified as evolutionary creationists. In a mail survey of ASA scientists last year, 66 percent of respondents affirmed that "Homo sapiens evolved through natural processes from ancestral forms in common with primates,"
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