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- Dictionaryex ni·hi·lo/ˌeks ˈnēhəlō/
adverb
- 1. out of nothing: formal "the fashioning of life ex nihilo by God"
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Creatio ex nihilo is the doctrine that matter is not eternal but had to be created by some divine creative act. It is a theistic answer to the question of how the universe came to exist. It is in contrast to creation ex materia, sometimes framed in terms of the dictum Ex nihilo nihil fit or "nothing comes from nothing", meaning all things were formed ex materia (that is, from pre-existing things).... Wikipedia