请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 evolutionist
释义

Definition of evolutionist in English:

evolutionist

noun iːvəˈluːʃ(ə)nɪstɛːvəˈluːʃ(ə)nɪstˌɛvəˈluʃənəst
  • A person who believes in the theories of evolution and natural selection.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is a difficulty for evolutionists since they believe that all insects share a common ancestor.
    • But Darwinian evolutionists have hardly ignored the matter of complex processes.
    • Both evolutionists and creationists would do well to study his assessment of the current state of human fossils.
    • Shouldn't evolutionists rejoice, and creationists despair, at all this observed change?
    • The battle between evolutionists and creationists may have great urgency in the American Bible belt, but little elsewhere.
    • Although evolutionists believe that feathers evolved from scales, they have very little in common.
    • The authors simply believe evolutionists need to look at the evidence in a fresh way.
    • The reality is that fossils are being found in new places all the time but these finds do not cause evolutionists to doubt evolution.
    • Yet today many evolutionists claim that creationists cannot be scientists.
    • All the neo-catastrophists were evolutionists and believed in the billions of years of earth history.
    • All evolutionists agree that genetic drift can't explain adaptive evolution.
    • They are also vital when evolutionists defend their scientific credibility.
    • Emphasis is placed on how creationists and evolutionists can look at the same data and yet come to different conclusions.
    • This makes no sense evolutionarily speaking; the evolutionists sweep this fact under the rug.
    • Strangely, evolutionists protest loudly when creationists use this approach!
    • Oh wait, these great scientists weren't evolutionists: they all believed in creation!
    • Note that this does not mean that evolutionists believe that only one woman existed at that time.
    • This exercise has led to grandstanding by some evolutionists that this proves creationists wrong.
    • Rather, most evolutionists now believe it contained carbon dioxide and nitrogen.
    • Many evolutionists are calling this creationism wrapped in a new package.
adjective iːvəˈluːʃ(ə)nɪstɛːvəˈluːʃ(ə)nɪstˌɛvəˈluʃənəst
  • Relating to the theories of evolution and natural selection.

    an evolutionist model
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Just when you think you've seen it all, another evolutionist theory gets proposed!
    • Instead, contrary to evolutionist principles and values, they have operated as congruent features in the changing patterns of African-American life for at least the past two centuries.
    • But this is hotly disputed by some evolutionist experts themselves, and it is just as reasonable to presume that theropods did not have those last two sacs.
    • What needs editing is not Darwinian biology but evolutionist materialism.
    • So the story-tellers - I mean evolutionist cosmologists - once told us.
    • It is perfectly plausible, however, for an evolutionist to quote, use, and parrot from evolutionist sources.
    • Maybe it will give him, and some other evolutionist apologists, food for thought the next time they put one of their grandmothers on a train.
    • Further, there is too much variety to be accommodated by any evolutionist theory of common descent.
    • The colonisers, more or less impregnated with the evolutionist model and, before that, the belief that they were the carriers of a universal civilisation, saw in otherness a primitive and deformed version of their own identity.
    • Posed against its use first as evolutionist trophy and then as ethnographic evidence, this aestheticization is not entirely value-free for it allows the work to be both decontextualized and commodified.
    • The categories and relations of evolutionist theory in anthropology expressed deeply held values.
    • We then see how thinking in terms of final causes was revived in the works of Immanuel Kant and William Paley, but now found itself faced with the problem of accommodating progressionist and evolutionist thinking.
    • What he would contest, though, is the implication that Darwin had recanted his evolutionist theories and embraced the church - a claim strenuously denied by his family.
    • That is indeed an old and dismissive evolutionist argument.
    • Since creationists recognize deterioration and mutations since the Fall, there is no uniquely evolutionist prediction here.
    • Despite the fact that the change does nothing to prevent the teaching of evolution or even encourage creation to be taught, it has upset many evolutionist teachers and officials in Kentucky.
    • Contrary to the mass media's claims, teaching of evolutionist theory was not to be in any way forbidden, or in any way restricted.
    • Early on, evolutionist ideas were challenged by more particularist and relativist notions of anthropology.
    • Although the origins of the experimental child psychology are to be found in Germany, the new empirical and evolutionist child study was practiced mainly in the Anglo-Saxon world.
    • All through high school, evolutionist doctrines have been crammed down my throat, and my belief in the Lord Jesus Christ has been ridiculed without respite.

Derivatives

  • evolutionism

  • noun ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)nɪz(ə)mɛvəˈluːʃ(ə)nɪz(ə)m
    • The word creationism, coined in 1868 in opposition to what was then called Darwinism or evolutionism, had fallen on hard times.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We are, in part, natural beings, but we alone among the animals are in some ways alienated from the natural world in which we live. Fundamentalist creationism and rigidly atheistic evolutionism are both pretty implausible.
      • Neither Intelligent Design nor theistic evolutionism, alas, is the most influential position among the evangelical rank and file, where Young Earth creationism still holds sway.
      • In 1981, creationists tried again, proposing a law that required teachers to give ‘balanced treatment’ to evolutionism and creationism.
      • Leaving aside the scientific merits of intelligent design theory, it is controversial because it dares to challenge the strictly enforced, unquestioned, and narrow dogma of Darwinian evolutionism.

Rhymes

Confucianist, devolutionist, elocutionist, revolutionist
 
 

Definition of evolutionist in US English:

evolutionist

nounˌɛvəˈluʃənəstˌevəˈlo͞oSHənəst
  • A person who believes in the theories of evolution and natural selection.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet today many evolutionists claim that creationists cannot be scientists.
    • The battle between evolutionists and creationists may have great urgency in the American Bible belt, but little elsewhere.
    • But Darwinian evolutionists have hardly ignored the matter of complex processes.
    • All the neo-catastrophists were evolutionists and believed in the billions of years of earth history.
    • The reality is that fossils are being found in new places all the time but these finds do not cause evolutionists to doubt evolution.
    • Rather, most evolutionists now believe it contained carbon dioxide and nitrogen.
    • Strangely, evolutionists protest loudly when creationists use this approach!
    • This makes no sense evolutionarily speaking; the evolutionists sweep this fact under the rug.
    • This is a difficulty for evolutionists since they believe that all insects share a common ancestor.
    • All evolutionists agree that genetic drift can't explain adaptive evolution.
    • This exercise has led to grandstanding by some evolutionists that this proves creationists wrong.
    • Oh wait, these great scientists weren't evolutionists: they all believed in creation!
    • Shouldn't evolutionists rejoice, and creationists despair, at all this observed change?
    • Note that this does not mean that evolutionists believe that only one woman existed at that time.
    • Although evolutionists believe that feathers evolved from scales, they have very little in common.
    • The authors simply believe evolutionists need to look at the evidence in a fresh way.
    • Emphasis is placed on how creationists and evolutionists can look at the same data and yet come to different conclusions.
    • Both evolutionists and creationists would do well to study his assessment of the current state of human fossils.
    • They are also vital when evolutionists defend their scientific credibility.
    • Many evolutionists are calling this creationism wrapped in a new package.
adjectiveˌɛvəˈluʃənəstˌevəˈlo͞oSHənəst
  • Relating to the theories of evolution and natural selection.

    an evolutionist model
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That is indeed an old and dismissive evolutionist argument.
    • The colonisers, more or less impregnated with the evolutionist model and, before that, the belief that they were the carriers of a universal civilisation, saw in otherness a primitive and deformed version of their own identity.
    • The categories and relations of evolutionist theory in anthropology expressed deeply held values.
    • Just when you think you've seen it all, another evolutionist theory gets proposed!
    • Since creationists recognize deterioration and mutations since the Fall, there is no uniquely evolutionist prediction here.
    • Instead, contrary to evolutionist principles and values, they have operated as congruent features in the changing patterns of African-American life for at least the past two centuries.
    • Despite the fact that the change does nothing to prevent the teaching of evolution or even encourage creation to be taught, it has upset many evolutionist teachers and officials in Kentucky.
    • What he would contest, though, is the implication that Darwin had recanted his evolutionist theories and embraced the church - a claim strenuously denied by his family.
    • What needs editing is not Darwinian biology but evolutionist materialism.
    • Early on, evolutionist ideas were challenged by more particularist and relativist notions of anthropology.
    • Posed against its use first as evolutionist trophy and then as ethnographic evidence, this aestheticization is not entirely value-free for it allows the work to be both decontextualized and commodified.
    • Maybe it will give him, and some other evolutionist apologists, food for thought the next time they put one of their grandmothers on a train.
    • Contrary to the mass media's claims, teaching of evolutionist theory was not to be in any way forbidden, or in any way restricted.
    • Although the origins of the experimental child psychology are to be found in Germany, the new empirical and evolutionist child study was practiced mainly in the Anglo-Saxon world.
    • So the story-tellers - I mean evolutionist cosmologists - once told us.
    • All through high school, evolutionist doctrines have been crammed down my throat, and my belief in the Lord Jesus Christ has been ridiculed without respite.
    • Further, there is too much variety to be accommodated by any evolutionist theory of common descent.
    • But this is hotly disputed by some evolutionist experts themselves, and it is just as reasonable to presume that theropods did not have those last two sacs.
    • We then see how thinking in terms of final causes was revived in the works of Immanuel Kant and William Paley, but now found itself faced with the problem of accommodating progressionist and evolutionist thinking.
    • It is perfectly plausible, however, for an evolutionist to quote, use, and parrot from evolutionist sources.
 
 
随便看

 

英语词典包含464360条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/5 18:13:40