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In the United States, 99.8% of U.S. biologists are evolutionists. <ref>"evolutionism." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 20 Mar. 2007. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evolutionism>.</ref>
 
In the United States, 99.8% of U.S. biologists are evolutionists. <ref>"evolutionism." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 20 Mar. 2007. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evolutionism>.</ref>
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The terms ''evolutionist'' and ''evolutionism'' can carry a connotation of unthinking [[faith]] or [[pseudoscience]] because the suffix ''-ism'' is commonly used to designate varieties of philosophical opinion.
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The terms ''evolutionist'' and ''evolutionism'' use the suffix ''-ism'', which is commonly used to designate varieties of philosophical opinion, and some people who use scientific grounds to support evolution bristle at the application of these terms to themselves. There seems to be no such objection to the term ''anti-evolutionism''.
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Accordingly, many people who use scientific grounds to support evolution
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bristle at the application of these terms to themselves.  
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Likewise, the term ''anti-evolutionism'' carries an ideological connotation.
      
This is all part of the controversy over evolution itself (see [[Origins debate]]).  
 
This is all part of the controversy over evolution itself (see [[Origins debate]]).  
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