cosmogonistn.
/kɒzˈmɒɡənɪst/, /kɒzˈmɒɡn̩ɪst/, U.S. /kɑzˈmɑɡənəst/ (a) One who studies cosmogony, or offers an account of the origin or creation of the world. †(b) Formerly: one who holds that the world was created or had a beginning in time. Obsolete.
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1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Contents sig. b3v Other Pagan Theists [were] neither Theogonists nor Cosmogonists: they holding the Eternity of the World, and of the Gods.
1736–44 H. Coventry Lett. Philemon to Hydaspes iii. (T.) The sacred cosmogonist.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 104 The cosmogonist has availed himself of this, as of every obscure problem in geology, to confirm his views.
1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age viii. 105 The astronomer and cosmogonist assure us that there was a time when this earth existed as a mass of gaseous matter.
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