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Cosmogonist

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cos·mog·o·ny (k

z-m

g

-n

)

n. pl. cos·mog·o·nies

1. The astrophysical study of the origin and evolution of the universe.

2. A specific theory or model of the origin and evolution of the universe.

cosmo·gonic (-m

-g

n

k), cosmo·goni·cal adj.

cosmo·goni·cal·ly adv.

cos·mogo·nist n.

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It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; I would almost as soon believe with the old and ignorant cosmogonists, that fossil shells had never lived, but had been created in stone so as to mock the shells now living on the sea-shore.

The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context

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