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ALEXH said:
Why is it that creationists, young earth creationists, intelligent design proponents, and evolutionists all seem to consider their particular theories and beliefs to be mutually exclusive - i.e.,only they are right and everybody else therefore is completely wrong?

Well, they consider their beliefs to be mutually exclusive because they are. God either created the world in 6 days 6,000 years ago or he got the evolutionary ball rolling eons ago and sort of helped things out over billions of years time. There's no way to have both.

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Clearly there is a degree of fact and truth in each of their arguments

Clearly? Is there? This is something that stands to be shown.

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, so wouldn't it make sense for some of our heavy thinkers to attempt to synthesize all of it into some sort of, "General Theory of Man's Origin And Role", rather than fighting each other to a stalemate?

See above.

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