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  • (Mary's consent at the angel's annunciation tells us everything we need to know, except for most folks the connotation conjures up 'automobile company' or 'ex-nihilo' currency creation favored by political administrations who like to avoid concepts like "consent" not something young men desire to imitate: ancilla Domini heroism)

    Do you think "Consent is Sexy"? 2009

  • Now, literally hundreds of new small high schools, housed in the great old buildings, have been created ex-nihilo.

    Marc Epstein: Killing Me Softly: The Slow Steady Demise of New York's Great High Schools Marc Epstein 2010

  • Now, literally hundreds of new small high schools, housed in the great old buildings, have been created ex-nihilo.

    Marc Epstein: Killing Me Softly: The Slow Steady Demise of New York's Great High Schools Marc Epstein 2010

  • You on the other hand have inflated a possible minor sub-point to an over-arching main point, mocking Creation ex-nihilo.

    Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3 James F. McGrath 2009

  • We always assume we know the finished product, but people are not created BANG ex-nihilo.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Fathorse 2008

  • We always assume we know the finished product, but people are not created BANG ex-nihilo.

    I'm Not There Fathorse 2008

  • There is the inevitable first sign of high banking profits money made by charging interest on money magicked/created ex-nihilo which leads to price rises.

    Paying for Market Access Serf 2007

  • Yet natural effects in science need not have natural causes; Big Bang theory, which posits the creation of all matter and time ex-nihilo, explains material effects (matter, time, and natural laws) using an immaterial cause (creation ex-nihilo).

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • However, the fully formed human double helix did not spring up ex-nihilo according to science.

    Aish Weekly Articles 2009

  • Cosmology is based on Big Bang theory, which posits creation ex-nihilo, which by definition is extra-natural.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

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