Creatio Ex Nihilo? The traditional Christian doctrine of an original creation ex nihilo, based upon Genesis 1 and 2 and particularly upon the first three verses of Genesis, has been attacked in recent years from a quarter in addition to that of the scientific community. Increasingly, modern translations of Genesis (e.g., NEB, NRSV), representing the consensus of Old Testament scholarship, have rejected the traditional translation found in such versions as the KJV, RV, ASV, NIV, and NKJV, and have