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Sean Faircloth:
Attack of the Theocrats!
I can only go on what the Chatechism says, which confirms creatio ex nihilo and rejects creatio ex deo:
"We believe that God needs no pre-existent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of necessary emanation from the divine substance. God creates freely 'out of nothing'". (CCC 296)
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