How to Use creationism in a Sentence

creationism

noun
  • Why cicadas are a rainbow of science, and how creationism takes all the beauty out of it .
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2013
  • Public funding may be playing a key role in the growth of creationism in Brazil.
    — Heslley MacHado Silva, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • The House passed a creationism bill and passed it onto the Senate.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Over the years, the outspoken Johanson has clashed with others about science, funds, creationism and more.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Our Legislature's passing a bill that creationism must be taught in science in school is redundant.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nye was intimately stating his stance on the evolution/creationism debate.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2012
  • 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
  • The belief in creationism — that life originated and changed through divine creation — is widespread in Turkey.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
  • As much as the scientific community disagrees, creationism is not going away.
    — S. Joshua Swamidass, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
  • This shaped his application of special creationism to humans, in a theory that came to be known as polygenesis.
    — National Geographic, 5 Feb. 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Floats lined up nearby, including one from Faith Academy of Freestone, which teaches creationism.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • For Biblical literalists, there’s creationism, which pretends to be science.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 31 May 2018
  • 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
  • Teaching creationism The League of Women Voters study took a different approach.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 4 June 2018
  • That means science classes present the theory of evolution alongside creationism, which holds that humans, the natural world and the universe were created by God.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Other bills working their way through the Legislature include one allowing schools to teach creationism and one prohibiting police from enforcing federal gun laws.
    — Andrew Demillo, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Ayala has been outspoken on the ethical issues related to the study of human evolution, and a prominent spokesperson in the debate between evolution and creationism.
    — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2018

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