creationist
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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
“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
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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