cosmogonists

It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; 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 sea-shore.

January Books 5) The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett liberaliser 2010

A special version of spontaneous generation, of far greater interest in the long run, is found in the specula - tive tradition, launched by the Ionian cosmogonists, that dealt with the original formation on earth of all living things.

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

The principle of division is the same: — the light primary bodies Wang Ch ` ung and the Chinese cosmogonists term Yang, the heavy ones they designate by Yin.

Lunheng 1962

Empedocles, and other early cosmogonists, we should perhaps think less of his merits on this head: as it is, the possession of some such fragments of our poet makes us deeply regret the loss of the plays themselves.

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; 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 living on the seashore.

V. Laws of Variation. Specific Characters More Variable Than Generic Characters 1909

It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; 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 sea-shore.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; 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 sea-shore.

On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 05 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

Individuality of Intelligence, the dogma of Anaxagoras revived out of a more elaborate and profound analysis of Nature; something like that living unambiguous Principle which the old poets, in advance of the materialistic cosmogonists from Night and Chaos, had discovered in

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; 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 sea-shore.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845

It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; 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 sea-shore.

On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845