The belief that God created life using the evolutionary process as His method. It reconciles scientific evidence for common descent with religious belief in a purposeful creator. God is the author of the natural laws that produced evolution, and possibly intervenes in subtle, non-disruptive ways. It's the "compatible update" for religious belief, where the Bible's "days" are geologic epochs and Adam is a representative figure emerging from a population of hominins.
Example: "His bumper sticker read: 'Theistic Evolutionist: God's method is smarter than your literalism.' He saw the fossil record as God's grand, slow-burn novel, with natural selection as the plot mechanism and humanity's moral sense as the climax He always intended." Theistic Evolution
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Thesaurus maxing refers to the action of employing the use of overly verbose vocabulary: usually within the context of an exam essay, in an effort to make oneself appear more intelligent. Though usually practiced during exams, thesaurusmaxing is sometimes also used in common parlance, usually by those who lack sufficient confidence in their own intelligence and hence need it to be validated by other people.
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