Cosmogony is any theory concerning the coming into existence or origin of the universe, or an origin belief about how reality came to be. The word derives from the Greek Kosmogonia, from Kosmos “the world”, and the root of gine? “to be born”. In the specialized context of space science and astronomy, the term refers to theories of creation of the Solar System and their study (for example, the Solar Nebula theory).

Cosmogony can be distinguished from cosmology, which studies the universe at large and throughout its existence, and which technically does not inquire directly into the source of its origins. There is some ambiguity between the two terms, for example, the cosmological argument from theology regarding the existence of God is technically an appeal to cosmogonical rather than cosmological ideas. In practice, there is a scientific distinction between cosmological and cosmogonical ideas.

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