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
From 2007 to 2019, the percentage of teachers who present evolution without a creationist alternative grew dramatically, from only 51 percent to 67 percent.
From Scientific American • Jul. 5, 2021
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 good creationist style, Wilson asserts that Darwin’s “gradualism” is wrong: that many changes in life’s history were neither slow nor adaptive.
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2017
As long as people of the creationist stamp wield the instinct-club, just so long will they be unable to grasp the idea of intelligent ratiocination in the lower animals.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James
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