Creation ex nihilo

A bowler hat was buried in the volcanic eruption of TeWairoa village (North Island, New Zealand) on June 10,1886. It was discovered 20 years later, and was found to have turned to stone. A leg of ham had also been petrified after being buried in the same catastrophe. Creation Ex Nihilo, Vol. 8, No. 3, p. 10,1986... 

At this singularity, space and time came into existence literally nothing existed before the singularity, so, if the Universe originated at such a singularity, we would truly have a creation ex nihilo."... 

Mr. Poe, who will be known to the reader as the most beloved of our native poets and literary fabricators, has already earned for himself an untarnish-able posterity through his ethereal and ideal poetry, his creation ex nihilo of detective fiction, and his scientifically rigorous literary criticism, and is everywhere acknowledged to have set American literature on its feet once and for all. One feels that artistic and speculative advances of the widest possible variety and of a truly general and cosmical significance cannot be far behind. 

Like Paracelsus and many other chemists, Fludd was greatly interested in prime matter, a topic much debated by chemists and their opponents. The traditional Judaeo-Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo was incompatible with belief in uncreated prime matter but could include belief in prime matter created by God before the visible world. Some Church Fathers had held the latter belief, assimilating the opening verses of the Bible - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep (Genesis 1.1-2) - to Plato s description in Umaeus 52-3 of the unformed chaos from which the elements were separated out. Fludd described the contemporary debate ... 

I do not speak here of the creation of matter per se, that is, the creatio ex nihilo of Genesis 1, but of the creation of all the species and individuals that followed. The Scholastics imposed the details of their natural philosophy on the latter creation, not the former. 

Enzymes can be improved by various protocols to overcome most of their inherent limitations, hsted in Table 1. hi particular, directed evolution, combined with an efficient screen or selection tool, has proven particularly versatile [17-20], However, the ex nihilo creation of novel activities remains extremely challenging [21, 22],... 

So if al-MasTidi s discussion is driven, at least in part, by theological motives and commitments, it seems that he salvages the doctrine of the creation of the world ex nihilo at the expense of denying constant creation. God brings things into being, but His creatures then continue to exist and to operate autonomously in accordance with their inherent natures. 

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