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‘A probing speculative mind” is the rule for what goes into philosophy? I’m sure that the people who came up with a technical basis for creationism also were probing and quite speculative making creationism a philosophy.

Some vague “ a probing speculative mind” is not a good definition for a field of study. It’s way to broad and lacks preciseness.

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Philosophy is a PROCESS of enquiry (hopefully "skilled"). It is difficult to compress a long-running & haphazard process into precise definition. You can label the process, talk about various aspects of the process, share examples and so on, but it is perhaps not sensible to define it too precisely. Theories you get at the end of any process of enquiry, whether they are workable or not, are PRODUCTS. Products by their very nature will be well-defined or precise.

I mean given that "creationsim" is an emerging science it classifies as a process which still fits your definition of philosophy.

Heck anything that is a "process" that involves speculative probing is a philosophy according to that definition.

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