What is "evolutionistic"

Usage examples of "evolutionistic".

The atom, the molecule, the life-germ,--these are the barriers which stand against the evolutionistic conception of origins on the physical side.

And so these two groups of scientists, the evolutionistic biologist and the physicists are hopelessly at odds.

The preceding chapter concludes our investigation of that stage of evolutionistic thought which owes its origin and name to Charles Darwin.

We conclude that the history of religion does not only fail to support the evolutionistic postulate of a slow upward development of religions from crude original beliefs, but quite the reverse.

Here again we find confident assertion of an evolutionistic process mainly among those who lack the qualifications of original research.

Fiske is one of those defenders of the evolutionistic philosophy who irritate by reason of their cocksureness.

We cannot leave this subject without briefly adverting to a great historic fact, indeed, the most massive and significant fact in all history, which, in its remoter bearings, not only strikes at the very heart of the evolutionistic philosophy, but at the same time wounds it mortally in all its parts.