Creating or capturing what already is?

Here's a thought, do we create the things of this world or do we simply just bring into existence something that already is? To get technical all the actual elements, the material we use, are already there, we just rearrange them to create what our minds have thought of. Maybe this will help, did we create the car or did we finally put certain pieces of the puzzle together to form the car? I don't know the answer to this but this thought is super cool and one I thought I'd share.