In 1785 he developed a cosmogony a theory concerning the origin of the universe: the stars originally were scattered throughout infinite space, in which attractive forces gradually organized them into even more fragmented and tightly packed clusters.
The content of important myths concerning the origin of the world usually reflects the dominant cultural form of a tradition.
In intellectual monotheism the one god is nothing but the logical result of questions concerning the origin of the world.
Countless stories exist concerning the origin of peculiar rocks, properties of animals, plants, stars, or other features in the world.
The cosmogonic (concerning the origin of the world) and cosmographic myths have had important ritual functions and have provided the basis for cosmology (the ordering of the world).
A question concerning the origin of the lavas of island-arc volcanoes, which had been disputed since the general acceptance of the plate tectonic theory of the Earth's structure, was settled from the observation of beryllium-10 in these lavas.
His brother-in-law, Charles Hennell, was the author of An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity (1838), a book that precipitated Evans's break with orthodoxy that had been long in preparation.
The worship of such communities (also including gnostic sects) centred in the sharing of secret knowledge concerning the origin of the world and also of humanity's true nature, proper vocation, and destiny.
There are many conflicting claims concerning the origin of the crank, but it has been reasonably well established that the first recognizable crank appeared in China early in the 1st century ad.
Further, if the vacuum has energy, the question arises concerning the origin of the vacuum and its energy.
By this time, Rosmini had founded his religious order (1828), and published at Rome his fundamental philosophical work, A New Essay concerning the Origin of Ideas (1830).
