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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

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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

The universe of continuous creation, Hoyle believes, is a very cheerful place compared with earlier conceptions.

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

The world is the continuous creation of God.

From Initiation into Philosophy by Faguet, Émile