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continuous creation

British  

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

Gold is a principal proponent of "continuous creation."

From Time Magazine Archive

Gold and Hoyle, like Lyttleton and Bondi, are backers of the theory of continuous creation, which holds that matter is still being created.

From Time Magazine Archive

A truly continuous creation could be bound by no programme; by definition it could have neither date in time nor location in space.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Alfred H. Lloyd

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