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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The world is the continuous creation of God.

From Initiation into Philosophy by Faguet, Émile