There is something deeply mysterious associated with them, that puzzles the philosopher and cosmogonist to explain. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
If some old cosmogonist asked you to believe that the primitive cause of the solar system was not to 'be traced to a Divine Intelligence, but to. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
The cosmogonist holds that the Flood, -- no mere tranquil rising of the waters, as some suppose, -- was accompanied by terrible convulsions, which reduced to utter ruin the already shattered earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
Unless we go the whole length of supposing the simple account of the Hebrew cosmogonist to be a series of awkward equivocations, in which he attempted to give a representation widely different from the facts, yet, without trespassing against literal truth, we can find no difficulty in interpreting his words. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.] Reference
But no cosmogonist has been able to go behind the chemical elements, and until human philosophy can show how these forms of matter, with all the marvellous adjustments among their properties, have been evolved out of the ` ` star dust '' of the original chaos, or out of nothing, and can adjust by natural causes the delicate play of forces in that most familiar of all phenomena, a candle-flame, it will not be able to overthrow the evidence of design afforded by this genial winter-evening light. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Chemistry] Reference
To borrow from the description of this ingenious cosmogonist, "those on the lower fragments would be first engulphed, and their races completely extinguished from off the surface, and deposited in the earth; then those on higher and higher upwards, till the whole became submerged. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
Hwai-nan-tze (died 112 b.c.), a cosmogonist. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
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