preservationist

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The conclusion Buffon drew was that life was not nearly as clear-cut as preformationists would have people believe.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2016

And within the same group we find the contrasts of believers in monophyletic and believers in polyphyletic evolution, the mechanists and the half-confessed or thoroughgoing vitalists, the preformationists and the believers in epigenesis.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

Nor need the preformationists have greatly feared the reproach, that the parental organism must have been included within the grand-parental, and so on backwards to the first parents in Paradise.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

To these modern preformationists are opposed the modern upholders of epigenesis or gradual differentiation, who attempt to elaborate a mechanical theory of development.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf