creationistn.adj.

1820 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Dec. 545/1 The writer..has launched the full force of his derision against that formidable corps of sages.., the creationists, who seem to believe that they possess, in their laboratories, the anima mundi, corked up and sealed, like Asmodeus in the magician's bottle, and who, if you take them at their own word, must have been of counsel during the whole of the six days' work.

1833 L. Woods tr. G. C. Knapp Lect. Christian Theol. II. 78 On the contrary, the adherents of Pelagius for the most part denied this doctrine, and were Creationists [Ger. Creatianer].

1868 New Englander July 475 Even Anselm, like the Schoolmen generally, was a Creationist.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 463 The verbal controversy between Creationists..and Traducianists.

1964 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Instit. 27 245 Human souls also have a beginning; whether we are traducianists, deriving them all from Adam, or creationists, believing with Thomas that each soul is separately created, human souls have not existed from eternity.

1856 C. Darwin Let. 5 July (1990) VI. 170 I cannot gulp down your continent; & not being able to do so gives in my eyes the multiple creationists an awful triumph.

1913 Biblical World 41 42/2 The battle which raged between evolutionists and creationists has left the evolutionists in possession of the field.

1976 D. Nelkin in G. Holton & W. A. Blanpied Sci. & its Public 212 Two aspects of evolution theory are especially disturbing to creationists; the relationship between animals and man, and the implication of relativism.

1999 T. Pratchett et al. Sci. of Discworld xxvi. 189 The classic example—still routinely trotted out by creationists and others even though Darwin himself had a pretty good answer—is the evolution of the eye.

2005 Time 15 Aug. 35/3 I am a young-Earth creationist. I believe the Bible is adequately clear about how God created the world.

1860 Rambler 2 372 The creationist theory does not necessitate the perpetual search after manifestations of miraculous powers and perpetual ‘catastrophes’.

1866 J. B. Heard Tripartite Nature of Man 174 The distinction of psyche and pneuma, which is the key to the question of original or birth-sin, also solves the creationist controversy, on which divines are still divided.

1893 Athenæum 29 July 154/1 From this follows a belief in man's immortality, unless the absolutely unscientific creationist theory be adopted.

1916 Science 21 Apr. 551/2 We may ask ourselves whether there is a really essential difference between conceptions of this nature and creationist ideas.

1966 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 27 469 Their opinions are cited on substantive questions such as the mortality of the soul, the creationist or traducian theory of the soul's origin, [etc.].

1980 S. J. Gould Panda's Thumb (1982) ii. 28 His creationist opponents did view each species as unaltered from its initial formation.

1999 H. Chadwick in G. W. Bowersock et al. Late Antiq. 79 Traducianism sounded very Manichee to orthodox ears, and therefore there emerged a preference for the creationist view.

2003 R. Dawkins Devil's Chaplain ii. 61 One place where light could be thrown with advantage is the murky underworld of creationist propaganda.