Definition of "cosmos" []

• The universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious whole. (noun)
• An ordered, harmonious whole. (noun)
• Harmony and order as distinct from chaos. (noun)
• Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos in the composite family, having radiate flower heads of variously colored flowers and opposite pinnate leaves, especially C. bipinnatus and C. sulphureus, widely cultivated as garden annuals. (noun)

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• "To Darwinists evolution means naturalistic evolution, because they insist that science must assume that the cosmos is a closed system of material causes and effects, which can never be influenced by anything outside of material nature-by God, for example."
• "The statement "the cosmos is all there ever is, was, and will be" is no less advocacy and no more science than the statement "the cosmos appears to have been fine-tuned for life.""
• "All the authentic mystical traditions tell us that the cosmos is a Sacred Marriage of seeming opposites, such as: spirit and body, light and matter, good and evil, masculine and feminine, the transcendent aspect of the divine and its immanent embodiment."