We can see from the etymology of create that people in the Middle Ages sensed the existence of a so-called supernatural agent as the cause of what is created, of what is quite new. However, following the scientific revolution in the 1600s, scientists excluded the creative power of Life, emanating directly from the Divine Origin of the Universe, from their studies.
Our cultural conditioning therefore inhibits us from understanding what is causing scientists and technologists to drive the pace of creativity and evolutionary change at unprecedented, exponential rates of acceleration. A cultural revolution is thus needed if we are to intelligently adapt to our rapidly changing environment.
About 1380, in the sense ‘form out of nothing’, used of a divine or supernatural being, from Latin creātus, past participle of creāre ‘to make, bring forth, produce, procreate, beget, cause’, related to crescere ‘arise, be born, come into existence; increase, grow’, from PIE root *ker-² ‘to grow’.