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- adjective Of or pertaining to
creationism .
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Examples
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"creationistic" question: if god exists, who created him?
Blah, Blah! Technology wasmall 2010
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This approach, however, pits evolutionary creationists against creationistic non-evolutionists and/or IDists, which really means ID is involved in promoting a theistic understanding of nature and human life.
A Post-Wedge World 2005
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In practice, however, ID almost always boils down to creationistic attempts to undermine and oppose the theory of evolution, and the few efforts that are not overtly creationistic anti-evolutionary efforts are frequently merely token gestures whose sole purpose is to offer rhetorical evidence against the claim that all ID is creationistic.
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Sometimes Western logocentrism has been labeled as “creationistic”, due to this sense of an unchanging “existence” through time that seems to owes much to the use of the copula in our language.
Kenneth Miller through a magnifying glass - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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That evolutionary biology bears out the conservative claim that genes do affect social order is a fact not forgotten among the more intellectual conservatives, perhaps a reason why the intellectual conservatives typically do not share the creationistic impulses of the more reflexively and authority-believing conservatives.
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Arguing against the ID frame on the grounds that evolution ought to be taught in an atheistic or creationistic or deistic framework is fine - arguing that science has answered the question of what frame to use is just silly.
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Saying that the design of the human brain is anywhere else than in our DNA sounds somewhat creationistic.
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Saying that the design of the human brain is anywhere else than in our DNA sounds somewhat creationistic.
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What EA’s can do is to validate evolutionary scenarios, not creationistic ideas.
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What EA’s can do is to validate evolutionary scenarios, not creationistic ideas.
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