Of course, it is possible to reply that the
alleged stumbling block occurs every day according to Christian teaching, because what here in the case of the first
human being is felt to be contrary to the fundamental conceptions of metaphysics and the methodological basis of natural science, happens continually at the origin of every individual
human soul, at the genesis of every single
human being, for such
souls equally with those of the first
human beings, are created by God directly out of nothing.