How to Use creationism in a Sentence

creationism

noun
  • The House passed a creationism bill and passed it onto the Senate.
    Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Public funding may be playing a key role in the growth of creationism in Brazil.
    Heslley MacHado Silva, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • Over the years, the outspoken Johanson has clashed with others about science, funds, creationism and more.
    Grant Segall, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Its creationism implication aside, The Good Dinosaur hits all the cross species friendship notes at which Pixar excels.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 16 June 2023
  • At the heart of white evangelical creationism is the mythology of an unbroken white lineage that stretches back to a light-skinned Adam and Eve.
    Allison Hopper, Scientific American, 5 July 2021
  • In all my years of dealing with Senator Inhofe the subject of creationism and evolution never even came up.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2010
  • This is the second time under Bolsonaro that a nominee’s views on creationism have become an issue.
    Herton Escobar, Science | AAAS, 26 Jan. 2020
  • In fact, the Supreme Court has already overturned a precedent that could give advocates of teaching creationism in public school science classes some hope.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • His likeness stands on the opposite side of the courthouse from a 2005 statue of William Jennings Bryan, the Christian defender of biblical creationism.
    Mark Zaleski, The Seattle Times, 14 July 2017
  • Our Legislature's passing a bill that creationism must be taught in science in school is redundant.
    Arkansas Online, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Teaching creationism The League of Women Voters study took a different approach.
    Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 4 June 2018
  • The belief in creationism — that life originated and changed through divine creation — is widespread in Turkey.
    Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
  • School choice critics point to the fact that most private school don’t need state accreditation to operate and that some private schools teach creationism in science classes.
    Washington Post, 13 May 2017
  • The fear of GMOs is like creationism: an unfounded belief based not on facts, but on a form of faith: genetically unmodified food is better.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2015
  • Many of the schools that receive voucher money are religious schools that teach creationism in high school science classes or promote Protestantism over other beliefs.
    Annie Martin, orlandosentinel.com, 4 June 2019
  • How entertainment merged with everything in our culture, how creationism met evolution in public schools — all those things were sparks.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Bill Nye, the nerdy supernova that fostered my childhood love of science, has recently gone viral in a video highly critical of the teaching of creationism to children.
    Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2012
  • Friends and family members commonly share their reasons for believing in creationism, ghosts, fad diets and so forth.
    Craig A. Foster, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In a series of decisions, the Court established precedents that, among other things, ended school prayer, ended daily Bible readings, blocked displays of the Ten Commandments and banned the teaching of creationism.
    David French, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Science wins over creationism in S.Korean textbook battle.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2012
  • Investigation has already shown many of these schools using texts that teach creationism and an ahistorical view of slavery; would that become the norm in Mandel’s dream nation?
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Floats lined up nearby, including one from Faith Academy of Freestone, which teaches creationism.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • This shaped his application of special creationism to humans, in a theory that came to be known as polygenesis.
    National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2017
  • The legislation is designed specifically to allow creationism to be taught in classes, something the courts have clearly stated is against the law, and which just as clearly is unacceptable in our schools.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2012
  • Answers in Genesis is dedicated to promoting young-Earth creationism, which holds that the Earth was created in six days, several thousand years ago.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Arkansas lost a court battle over a 1981 law that required the teaching of creationism in its classrooms, and in recent years conservatives have waged battles over how evolution, climate change and other topics are taught.
    Andrew Demillo, Star Tribune, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Even then, the fossil fish struck a popular nerve, arriving on the heels of the case of a trial in Pennsylvania that ruled against teaching creationism as an alternative to evolution in high school biology.
    New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The prime example here is their insistence that the hypothesis of creationism cannot be properly approached by the scientific method in the same way as any other hypothesis.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 27 Apr. 2017
  • After all, this is the same legislature that grossly mischaracterized a quote by Einstein to support creationism.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2011
  • Popp and Cotton said evolution, creationism and intelligent design should all be allowed in the science curriculum.
    Alia Malik, ExpressNews.com, 9 Feb. 2020

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