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continuous creation

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noun

  1. the theory that matter is being created continuously in the universe See steady-state theory

  2. the theory that animate matter is being continuously created from inanimate matter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Hoyle-Narlikar theory boldly proposed the continuous creation of new matter in an infinite universe.

From BBC May 23, 2025

“I realized during the pandemic that it’s about the continuous creation of an environment.”

From New York Times May 9, 2022

Hoyle is a respected scientist, one of the originators of the theory of continuous creation, which holds that the universe is still being formed by particles that appear out of nothing in empty space.

From Time Magazine Archive

Much more checking will have to be done before all cosmologists agree that the universe is in a steady state of continuous creation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes it follows its natural direction: there is then progress in the form of tension, continuous creation, free activity.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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