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Originally Posted by Marulus
Consolmagno was being metaphorical in this issue. I guess he did not want to say that creationism is directly deduced from some form of paganism, he just wanted to stress some similarity in the core principles of these two worldviews.
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In my opinion, he's using "paganism" as a derogatory or pejorative term. I even suspect that it's a part of a tendency of the Catholic church to further herself from European paganism, although the two of them were previously fused.