I personally don't like the term Theistic Evolutionist - it's a term that YECs felt needed to be perpetuated to describe people who, ostensibly, quite naturally accept the empirical evidence presented from independent scientific disciplines throughout the world, and reject the non-factual claims that YECs have made about physical reality due to their clumsy reading of scripture. I'm aware that in a debate, having a labelled group identity can offer some practical utility in identifying who falls into which camp - but I think the term Theistic Evolutionist gives too much regard for what YECs consider to be a valid debating ground.
Denial of evolution (at least, descent with modification over billions of years on earth) has the same kind of lack of credibility as denying gravity, electromagnetism, Newton's laws of motion, Archimedes' principle of buoyancy, Hooke's law, quantum mechanics, general relativity, and so forth. But not only do most YECs support most (if not all) of those scientific theories - even if they do not, they naturally don't have to refer to other Christians as Christian Newtonians or Christian General Relativists or gravitational Christians or Christian electromagnetists. It is always reasonable to assume a Christian you meet is an electromagnetist Christian or a gravitational Christian - it goes without saying, really.
Consequently, what YECs don't realise is that for the vast majority of the world population of Christians, they are simply folk who accept the Bible as the book through which we learn more and more about God and our relationship with Him, and at the same time folk who accept the findings of science as an integral part of acquiring knowledge and understanding the physical world. Referring to such folk as Theistic Evolutionists is really a label invented by YEC folk who don't understand science competently, and who don't interpret scripture with enough competence (if they are even willing to acknowledge it needs interpreting at all – as many aren't) to see that it does not conflict with a scientific understanding of physical reality.
To that end, I wish we lived in a world where we don't have to be referred to as Theistic Evolutionists, in the same way we live in a world where we don't have to be referred to as electromagnetist Christians or gravitational Christians.
