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I don't think the dictionary uses it as a pejorative.
I'm talking of the usage of the term here on the CF C&E subforum. When people use it as a pejorative it is a pejorative.
[Think, for example, of the phrase recently banned in the banners that appear on top of our various pages here. It looks from normal usage like a cheer for a person of a particular name, but when considered in a very recent context (and especially when given as an abbreviation) it is a profanity about a particular politician that is banned on this board when none of the component words is by themselves profane, nor would the phrase had such an implication until quite recently.]
I (and others) have said many times that "evolution believer" is a nonsensical notion and we do not care for the term "evolutionist".
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