The teleology of modernization is described in social evolutionism theories, existing as a template that has been generally followed by societies that have achieved modernity.
While 19th century evolutionism used value judgment and assumptions for interpreting data, the neoevolutionism relied on measurable information for analyzing the process of cultural evolution.
In the creation-evolution controversy, creationists often call those who accept the validity of the modern evolutionary synthesis evolutionists and the theory itself as evolutionism.
