ALAYMAN said:
Trying to get the discussion back on track, since Joseph dodged (or missed) several questions, maybe the other agnostics/atheists would care to tackle a very important question....
If at any time in the existence of the universe there was nothing, how did something come from nothing?
That's no problem for any of the atheists on this forum for you see, all
the great scientific minds of today believe that the universe came from
nothing! That is not hyperbole, or some kind of parable.
1. ?It is now
becoming clear that everything can?and probably did?come from
nothing.? ?
Robert A. J. Matthews, physicist, Ashton University, England
2. ?Space and time both started at the Big Bang and therefore there was
nothing before it.? ?
Cornell University?s ?Ask an Astronomer?
3. ?Some physicists believe our universe was created by colliding with another, but
Kaku [a theoretical physicist at City University of New York] says it also may have
sprung from
nothing?? ?
Scienceline.org
4. ?Even if we don?t have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the
origin of the universe from
nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.? ?
Paul Davies, physicist, Arizona State University
5. ?Assuming the universe came from
nothing, it is empty to begin with?Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a
state of nothingness be maintained.
The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.? ?
Victor J. Stenger, Prof. Physics, University of Hawaii; author of God: The Failed Hypothesis
6. ?Few people are aware of the fact that
many modern physicists claim that things?perhaps even
the entire universe?can indeed arise from
nothing via natural processes.? ?
Mark I. Vuletic, Creation Ex Nihilo?Without God
7. ?To understand these
facts we have to turn to
science. Where did they all come from, and how did they get so darned outrageous? Well, it all started with
nothing.? ??
Fifty Outrageous Animal Facts,? Animal Planet
8. ?To the
average person it might seem
obvious that
nothing can happen in
nothing. But to a quantum physicist,
nothing is, in fact, something.? ?
Discover Magazine ?Physics & Math/Cosmology?
9. ?It is rather
fantastic to realize that
the laws of physics can describe how
everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation out of
nothing, and how over the course of
15 billion years, matter could organize in such complex ways that we have human beings sitting here, talking, doing things intentionally.? ?
Alan Harvey Guth, theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Discover Magazine
10. ?The
fact that
life evolved out of nearly
nothing, some
10 billion years after the universe evolved out of
literally nothing is a
fact so staggering that
I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.? ?
Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor?s Tale
https://dailyevidence.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/%E2%80%9Catheists-do-not-claim-that-nothing-created-everything-%E2%80%9D/
Yes. The Bible is true.
Psa 14:1 The
fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God.