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
We meet Owen Lovejoy, once a creationist, now an authority on human locomotion.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2020
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
There seems here to be a field on which the specific creationist, the evolutionist with design, and the necessary evolutionist, may fight out an interesting, if not decisive, "triangular duel."
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa
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