Meanings
plural cdesign proponentsists
- InternetderogatoryhumorousA creationist.
Famous cdesign proponentsist Dembski brought it up again recently in his list of ID "predictions"...
2008 February 18, Sparky, “What's that appendix for, anyway?”, in Discount Thoughts, retrieved 28 Oct 20122 more examples
On the “Wells lies. Again.” thread a few months ago, I pointed out to the cdesign proponentsist that the existence of Stupid Design falsified ID.
2007 December 15, David Marjanovi?, “Billy Dembski, pious and deluded (comment)”, in Pharyngula, retrieved 28 Oct 2012But you must not like him because he appointed Judge Jones, who ruled against the cdesign proponentsists, calling their nonsense "breathtaking inanity."
2011 April 8, Frank J, “Re: Warning to the NON-Christians in this group”, in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet), message-ID <7856598f-1cae-401b-9f88-9e658121fb4d@x3g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>Synonyms: creationist, creo, creatard, IDiot
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA creationist.
Origin
From "cdesign proponentsists", a typographic splicing of design proponents into c[reation]ists, in a 1987 draft for the book Of Pandas and People when, after the US Supreme Court ruled that teaching creationism in US state schools was unconstitutional, the terms creationism and creationists were replaced by intelligent design and design proponents in an attempt to get around the ban.
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