evolutionism

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It remains that I should put before you what I understand to be the third phase of geological speculation—namely, Evolutionism.

From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Huxley, Thomas Henry

What is more, the religious folk can claim to be among the pioneers of Evolutionism.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

From 1830, when Darwin was an apparently unpromising lad of twenty-one, until 1859, when he turned the world upside down by his Origin of Species, there was a slump in Evolutionism.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

Creā′tionism, the theory of special creation, opp. to Evolutionism: the theory that God immediately creates a soul for every human being born—opp. to Traducianism; Creā′tionist.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Evolutionism, as I shall try to show, is not a truly scientific philosophy, either in its method or in the problems which it considers.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand