creationist
Americannoun
adjective
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As recently as 2014, popular science entertainer Bill Nye held a high-profile debate with young-earth creationist Ken Ham.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2021
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
In fact, she regards Darwin’s work as “impressive,” and makes no argument for a young Earth, the fixity of species or any of the other usual creationist canards.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 17, 2018
The creationist theory does not necessitate the perpetual search after manifestations of miraculous powers and perpetual 'catastrophes.'
From On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart
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