creationist
Americannoun
adjective
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This technique is also called the "Gish gallop," named after a creationist named Duane Gish, who would employ the tactic in supposed "debates" against biologists.
From Salon • Aug. 4, 2023
One was a 1920s creationist assault on mainstream geology.
From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2019
By day, she struggled to parse Husserl in the original German; by night, she watched a lot of YouTube—“ ‘Christopher Hitchens destroys creationist in debate,’ that kind of thing,” she said.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2018
Because both depend only upon one’s preconceptions, the creationist viewpoint is just as valid as any other.
From Scientific American • Apr. 17, 2018
What a joke it would be if I pat you on the back when you attack some immovable creationist!
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
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