CCC 338

Nothing exists that does not owe its existence to God the Creator. the world began when God's word drew it out of nothingness; all existent beings, all of nature, and all human history are rooted in this primordial event, the very genesis by which the world was constituted and time begun.²⁰⁷ Cf. St. Augustine, De Genesi adv. Man 1, 2, 4: PL 34, 175PL — Patrologia Latina (Migne).