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Evolutionism

noun
1.
(biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals.  Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution.






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"Evolutionism" Quotes from Famous Books



... you want to treat a tiger reasonably, you must go back to the garden of Eden. For the obstinate reminder continued to recur: only the supernatural has taken a sane view of Nature. The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really in this proposition: that Nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover that she is a step-mother. The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can ...
— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

... The predominant interest of evolutionism is in the question of human destiny, or at least of the destiny of Life. It is more interested in morality and happiness than in knowledge for its own sake. It must be admitted that the same may be said of many other philosophies, and that a desire for the kind of knowledge which philosophy ...
— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell

... the formation of the intellect, and thereby the genesis of that matter of which our intellect traces the general configuration. They would dig to the very root of nature and of mind. They would substitute for the false evolutionism of Spencer—which consists in cutting up present reality, already evolved, into little bits no less evolved, and then recomposing it with these fragments, thus positing in advance everything that is to be explained—a true evolutionism, ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson

... apostasy. And the prophecies of the Bible have repeatedly pointed out a special message that the Church is to bear to the world in that darkest hour just before the breaking of eternal day,—a message that we now see is wonderfully adapted to this age of evolutionism in science and pantheism in philosophy. Looking down along the darkening vistas of the coming years, the great Jehovah saw how a vastly increased knowledge of His created works would be perverted into a burlesque of Creation, and how this would result in a wide-spread apostasy in which His written ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price



Words linked to "Evolutionism" :   Darwinism, Lamarckism, biological science, scientific theory, punctuated equilibrium, theory of punctuated equilibrium, biology



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