The power to create and destroy life is considered one of the central attributes of God, at least in western civilization.
Theologians call it creation ex nihilio - to make something out of nothing.
It was the detective work of an acquaintance of mine who gave me a glimpse of the new god, one that also creates something out of nothing. Mark Anielski, a Canadian economist, sent me a paper he presented at the 34th annual conference of the Canadian Economics Association in June. The amount of money in existence varies only with the action of banks in increasing and decreasing deposits and bank purchases. Every loan, overdraft, or bank purchase creates a deposit and every repayment of a loan, overdraft or bank sale destroys a deposit. We have a debt-based fractional reserve money system that controls the blood flow of the economy.