Neo-creo
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Neo-creo is a noun meaning (slang) Clipping of neo-creationist.
Meaning
(slang) Clipping of neo-creationist.
Example Sentences
I come at last to the most basic difficulty with the neo-creo attack, it's dim suggestions that the scientific world needs a shot of supernaturalism.
That makes it all the more important for the layman to distinguish the various gradations between evolutionists, serious scientists who are interested in ID, "neo-Creos," and Biblical literalists.
That's why there's no scientific controversy about common descent, the "fact of evolution." When pressed, even neo-creos (such as Michael Behe, the author of Darwin's Black Box) admit this (although, under other circumstances they're inclined to hedge and fudge).
To counter the "sophisticated branding experts" who flummoxed establishmentarian evolutionaries with intelligent design, opponents of classroom debate over Darwin's theory have come up with a catchily derisive neologism that lumps the modern I.D. advocates with religious fundamentalists: neo-creo.
Word Forms
- neo-creos
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include creo, neo-creationist, neo-pantheist, neoconceptualist, neo-pagan, neoconist.
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