Creation Ex Nihilo Quotes

If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

I have created a new universe from nothing.

At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. An infinitely old universe, always evolving, may not be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end. Creatio ex nihilo, even as religious doctrine, only dates to around AD 200. The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.

In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.

You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.

The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.

The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

For millennia mankind has believed that nothing can come out of nothing. Today we can argue that everything has come out of nothing. Nobody has to pay for the universe. It is the ultimate free lunch.

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing