Bush: 'Teach the controversy'

[Clutch Munny]

Sweetie, I think that's a fair point. Probably fairer still to say that 'creationism' and 'evolutionary theory' are both ambiguous -- especially the former. When people talk about the falsification of creationism, they are (I think) virtually always talking about one particular family of positions that travel under that label, which do set themselves up in opposition to evolutionary theories, broadly conceived. (Darwin and otherwise.)

Indeed, the most commonly discussed kinds of creationism essentially define themselves as denying that common ancestry is consistent with some holy text or other, and is therefore false.

But it's certainly correct that one can strictly and literally be a creationist while accepting the science of the day at face value. Presumably whatever our best theory T tell us, there is a theistic story that goes, "God brought it about that T would apply". That seems more or less what Chesterson is saying.