Wife’s family - 100% YEC
My side -100% hell-bound evolutionists
Down here the only creationists I’ve ever met were Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I get the feeling that in much of the Northern U.S. and Canada, few people really privately believe in creation, but most people pretend to believe in it if asked. (it’s a safer public stance to take)
I think there are more old-earth creationists than you think.
Speaking as a (former) Roman Catholic from Ireland, the most Catholic country outside Poland, old-earth creationism seemed to be the line that we were fed. They never really went into specifics but the early bible as allegory was pretty much a given.
I live in a US Western coastal state. I grew up in the Northeast. I’ve knowingly met a handful of creationists in my life. Like around 2 maybe. If anybody tells me that they don’t believe in that evolution stuff, my opinion of them ratchets downwards. It’s sort of like saying you don’t believe in calculus or aircraft carriers.
Incidentally, there’s an admittedly polemic article at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that applies my definition of creationism, or at least something like it. “With significant provisos to be noted below, Creationists are strongly opposed to to a world brought on by evolution, particularly to a world as described by Charles Darwin in his Origin of Species.”