Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
evolutionist .
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
evolutionism .
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Examples
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I've read Ruse's The Evolution-Creation Struggle, the book she discusses, and I can't remember detecting a "spiritual feel" behind any of the remarks Ruse describes as "evolutionistic."
Hullabaloo 2006
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Every chapter explores the wonder, beauty and creation of the human body except the weenus, giving evidence for creation, while exposing faulty evolutionistic reasoning.
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I've read Ruse's The Evolution-Creation Struggle, the book she discusses, and I can't remember detecting a "spiritual feel" behind any of the remarks Ruse describes as "evolutionistic."
Hullabaloo 2006
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Humorously, the Amazon page for “who is adam” contains mostly a debate between the people heaping lavish praise on the book, and some people denouncing the book as “anti-Biblical evolutionistic progressivism where millions of years of pre-adamic life lived and died, killed and were hunted as prey and predator leaving gradual fossil remains before the Fall into sin”.
Dressing Up ID Is No Substitute for Real Science - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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As the story of the idea of God passes now into the post-Kantian era of strenuous systematic reformulation in idealistic, positivistic, and evolutionistic contexts, it may be well to bear in mind a remark made by Kant's fellow Königsberger and critic, J.G. Hamann.
IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800 JAMES COLLINS 1968
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This claim merely injects the claim of gradual evolutionistic growth of spiritual apprehension.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Having cast off the only reliable account of man's first deeds and achievements, practically all writers of the present then proceed to draw very largely upon their imagination, which happens to be cast into the thought-patterns of evolutionistic conceptions.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Behind the critics 'claim that "confession is absent" from this prayer lies the purpose to thrust an evolutionistic development into religious experiences, a development which is "significantly absent."
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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On this point, not governed by preconceived evolutionistic notions, the critics draw no such conclusions but are unanimous in speaking of the terrible struggle that arose in Abraham's heart.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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That injects the evolutionistic concept, making it appear that this group had barely risen above the level of selling off marriageable daughters like so much merchandise.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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