cdesign proponentsists

English

Etymology

From 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.

Noun

cdesign proponentsists pl (singular cdesign proponentsist)

1. (Internet, slang, pejorative) creationists

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See also

See under cdesign proponentsist.