Word info Synonyms Antonyms

evolutionism

Noun

Meaning

The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Related terms

Phrases with the word

Examples

Evolutionism is to think that a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could somehow assemble a fully equipped and flight-ready 747. Ben Carson

Design demands a designer. Frogs don't turn into princes, and "big bangs” make big messes not neat, orderly universes. There are no facts to support evolutionism. It stands royally naked. Kent Hovind

The onset of evolutionism brought with it the concept of branching phylogenies. The branching image, so clear and succinct, has come to underlie all our thinking about organisms and evolution. Stuart Kauffman

Another of the religious right's scams is marching into public school science classes and trying to mandate teaching of "creation science," as opposed to evolution. Somehow, they put evolutionism and creationism in the same category-believing that one makes the other impossible. Jesse Ventura

Islam also has its own school of theistic evolutionism, which holds that mainstream scientific analysis of the origin of the Universe is supported by the Qur'an. Source: Internet

Dupree, pp. 216-232 Edward Drinker Cope and Alpheus Hyatt reconciled this view with evolutionism in a form of neo-Lamarckism involving recapitulation theory. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms