cosmogonist
Americannoun
plural
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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 The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh
He was a disciple of the distinguished cosmogonist Woodward.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
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