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No -- not creatio ex nihilo, but creatio ex materia.My question is this: do all biblical literalists believe that all species were created ex nihilo during the seven day creation process described in genesis or do some believe that god continues to intervene and create new species?
God created the earth ex nihilo, but notice now:
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Verse 11 is describing creatio ex materia.
Genesis 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Verse 20 is describing creatio ex materia.
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Verse 24 is describing creatio ex materia.
After creating Adam (also ex materia), God then planted and hypergrew a garden and placed Adam in it.
(We like to say that God built the chapel Adam was going to get married in.)
Then God created Eve from Adam's rib (creatio ex materia), brought her to Adam and they got married.
God then ceased creating; and the rest is history.
Note: there are various times when God intervened and performed acts of creatio ex materia, such as when He fed the widow of Zarephath and the 5000 with a lad's fish dinner and, IMO, the animals aboard the Ark; but these were not done in conjunction with the creation of the universe.
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