Continuing with my series, "My Theory of Progressive Mediate
Creation," here is part 1.1, "What is Progressive Mediate
Creation?" 1.1. What is Progressive Mediate Creation? © Stephen
E. Jones that God created the raw materials of the universe
immediately from out-of-nothing (ex nihilo), and thereafter He
created mediately by working (both naturally and supernaturally)
through natural processes and existing materials. I take the
name from the distinction by evangelical Presbyterian theologian
Charles Hodge (1797-1878) between "a first and second, or
immediate and mediate creation," the latter being "a forming out
of preexisting material," which he called "a mediate,
progressive creation": "Mediate and Immediate Creation. But
while it has ever been the doctrine of the Church that God
created the universe out of nothing by the word of his power,
which creation was instantaneous and immediate, i. e., without
the intervention of any second causes; yet it has generally been
admitted that this is to be understood on