creationist
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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“He helped them understand the importance of taking seriously the creationist challenge to science,” Dr. Scott said in an interview.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023
He has been well-prepared, having worked previously at the Discovery Institute, best known for its creationist and anti-evolution science denial.
From Salon • Aug. 1, 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
If the evolution key failed to open the doors to which we apply it, then there would be justification for a rehabilitation of the creationist doctrine, but the reverse is the case.
From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
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