Evilutionist vs Evolutionist - What's the difference?
evilutionist | evolutionist |
A supporter of the theory of evolution, regarded as an enemy of religion.
* 1951 , Charles Francis Potter, The Preacher and I: An Autobiography (page 319)
* 1978 , James Edward Sayer, Clarence Darrow: public advocate (page 64)
* 2000 , Ron Carlson, Common Sense, Nonsense, Or Church Sense (page 112)
* 2002 , Brian Regal, Henry Fairfield Osborn (page 173)
As nouns the difference between evilutionist and evolutionist
is that evilutionist is a supporter of the theory of evolution, regarded as an enemy of religion while evolutionist is a (male) evolutionist.evilutionist
English
Noun
(en noun)- In several large cities I was asked to address secret midnight meetings of high school teachers who feared to lose their jobs if seen consorting with an "evilutionist ."
- Originally seen as a great opportunity to do irreparable damage to religious modernists and "evilutionists ," the fundamentalists found, instead, that it was they who were injured by the Scopes trial.
- I is(SIC) suspicious that many contemporary evilutionists cling to their theory with such tenacity because they don't want to deal with the Ultimate Reality or Truth.
- The Christian Right too must have felt quizzical gratitude for this 'evilutionist' who, as they did, said man did not come from monkeys.