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Noun- A part of the science of astronomy that deals with the origin and development of the universe and its components.

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  • It is the "creator-within" expressing itself uniquely through each person as a new form of "social cosmogenesis."
  • Still “the roote of all,” it has of late appeared in a number of guises, notably the attempt of Teilhard de Chardin to argue that the universe evolves from cosmogenesis...
  • One of the great advances of science itself has been the relatively recent discovery of cosmogenesis, the universe story, as Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry call it: the...
  • I cannot recall the exact source offhand, Sumer I think but compound imagery was the mode of explaining cosmogenesis and theogony in pre-literate and pari-literate times...
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