Crossword clues for evolutionism
evolutionism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evolutionism \Ev`o*lu"tion*ism\, n. The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) Any of several theory that explain the evolution of systems or organisms. 2 (context uncountable English) The advocacy of Darwinian evolution by natural selection (Darwinism).
Wikipedia
Evolutionism was a common 19th century belief that organisms inherently improve themselves through progressive inherited change over time, and increase in complexity through evolution. The belief went on to include cultural evolution and social evolution. In the 1970s the term Neo-Evolutionism was used to describe the idea "that human beings sought to preserve a familiar style of life unless change was forced on them by factors that were beyond their control".
The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs. In addition, the term is used in a broader sense to cover a world-view on a wide variety of topics, including chemical evolution as an alternative term for abiogenesis or for nucleosynthesis of chemical elements, galaxy formation and evolution, stellar evolution, spiritual evolution, technological evolution and universal evolution, which seeks to explain every aspect of the world in which we live.
Since the overwhelming majority of scientists accept the modern evolutionary synthesis as the best explanation of current data, the term is seldom used in the scientific community; to say someone is a scientist implies acceptance of evolutionary views, unless specifically noted otherwise. In the creation-evolution controversy, creationists often call those who accept the validity of the modern evolutionary synthesis "evolutionists" and the theory itself as "evolutionism." Some creationists and creationist organizations, such as the Institute of Creation Research, use these terms in an effort to make it appear that evolutionary biology is a form of secular religion.
Usage examples of "evolutionism".
Mechanical Materialism, or Vulgar Evolutionism, which he considered to constitute a contradiction within the very fabric of the transcendent metaphysical Taoism of the past.
Thus one of the effects often attributed to the influence of biological evolutionism had in fact come about long before the establishment and general diffusion of that doctrine, and quite independently of it.
A flaccid, cartilaginous, unphilosophic evolutionism had full possession of the field for the moment, and claimed, as it were, to be the genuine representative of the young and vigorous biological creed, while he himself was in truth the real heir to all the honours of the situation.
And unfortunately doubt and caution are the last things commonly encouraged by the loose evolutionism of current culture.
That is where it differs also from the analogous vagueness of mere evolutionism, the idea of creatures constantly losing their shape.
I remember that once we deliberately went off for a walk in a park, chatting loudly so that adults would hear us, decorating our talk with all sorts of difficult scientific words whose meaning we did not know, such as transcendental, subjective, objective, synthetic, atomicity, parameter, evolutionism, precession of equinoxes, thermodynamic etc.
Hence it is, aside from any investigation of proofs of evolutionism, clear to the Christian student that there must be some fault either in reason or in observation that vitiates the whole theory.
Christianity and an Evolutionism of this sort, there is an irreconcilable conflict.
Evolution, a natural religion and a rational Evolutionism may yet harmoniously unite in a higher and more fruitful marriage.