Only God creates ex nihilo. Humans can only create out of s… - Yi-Fu Tuan

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Only God creates ex nihilo. Humans can only create out of something that already exists, which means there has to be an earlier destruction phase.

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Yi-Fu Tuan (5 December 1930 – 10 August 2022) was a Chinese-American writer and geographer.

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