cosmogonist

American  

[kahz-mah-guhn-ist] / kɑzˈmɑ gən ɪst /

noun

• cosmogonists
  plural

1. a specialist or expert in cosmogony.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• cosmogonists
  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 Hugh Miller

He was a disciple of the distinguished cosmogonist Woodward.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

Later cosmogonists discarded this theory mostly because it did not account for the greater angular momentum of the outer planets.

From Time Magazine Archive

I would almost as soon believe with the old and ignorant cosmogonists, that fossil shells had never lived, but had been created in stone so as to mock the shells now living on the seashore.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

A striking contrast to these cosmogonists is furnished by another group, which arose in France and Germany, and gave to the world the first rational ideas concerning the probable primeval evolution of our globe.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

By the consideration of these topics, the mind was slowly and insensibly withdrawn from imaginary pictures of catastrophes and chaotic confusion, such as haunted the imagination of the early cosmogonists.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

Unfortunately, this and similar ridicule directed against the cosmogonists was too well deserved.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell