RE: Is it okay for Christians to post here?
January 27, 2009 at 5:29 am
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2009 at 5:29 am by Kyuuketsuki.)
As someone else said, all this fuss over a word.
Personally I think we have to accept it is a word (as far as I can tell it is accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary which I personally consider to be the lord & master of the English language) and as such is valid in conversation.
I don't like the word because it adds nothing (evolutionary biologist already covers it), because it is a deviation (someone else mentioned that we don't say "gravitationalist" or "quantum mechanicist" ... both would be regarded as physicists I suppose) but primarily because it is associated with insult (both "evolutionist" and "Darwinist" seem to have derived from those camps that are anti-evolution i.e. creationists & proponents of intelligent design) and because it implies a philosophical bias towards evolution and I think most of us here, whilst accepting evolution, would accept an alternative theory if it had merit and supporting evidence.
Kyu
Personally I think we have to accept it is a word (as far as I can tell it is accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary which I personally consider to be the lord & master of the English language) and as such is valid in conversation.
I don't like the word because it adds nothing (evolutionary biologist already covers it), because it is a deviation (someone else mentioned that we don't say "gravitationalist" or "quantum mechanicist" ... both would be regarded as physicists I suppose) but primarily because it is associated with insult (both "evolutionist" and "Darwinist" seem to have derived from those camps that are anti-evolution i.e. creationists & proponents of intelligent design) and because it implies a philosophical bias towards evolution and I think most of us here, whilst accepting evolution, would accept an alternative theory if it had merit and supporting evidence.
Kyu
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