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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

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 Lyell, Charles, Sir

By the consideration of these topics, the mind was slowly and insensibly withdrawn from imaginary pictures of catastrophes and chaotic confusion, such as haunted the imagination of the early cosmogonists.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

The old mythic cosmogonists and the modern geologists and astronomers do not differ amongst themselves so much, after all.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various