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This Just In: Everything Came From Nothing and if You Don’t Agree You Know Nothing

Cornelius Hunter
January 10, 2012
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Evolution professor Lawrence Krauss is now saying that the universe, and everything in it, came from nothing. Not only that, but there are probably billions and billions of universes that have spontaneously arisen. Occasionally a universe happens to have all the right properties for life to arise spontaneously within it, and that would be us.  Read more

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Right, they are attributing creative powers to emergence, without any evidence nor cause-and-effect relationship.Joe
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What would you call it? And how would you determin whether it has "existed foreever"? What would that even mean?Elizabeth Liddle
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If something came from nothing, nothing is not nothing, it is something. By attributing creative powers to nothing, one has made something out of nothing.
But nobody is "attributing creative powers" to nothing. Saying that something came from nothing isn't the same as saying that "nothing" has creative powers. It is you who are attributing agency to this thing you are miscalling "no-thing".
Something-came-from-nothing “reasoning” is superbly irrational, and is yet another example of the grand tradition of nonsensical materialistic thinking.
No, it isn't "irrational". It requires something other than our habitual linear cause-leads-to-effect thinking, but there is no reason to think that that kind of thinking is the only "rational" kind of thinking. If that were the case, modern physics would have been impossible, and yet it has produced models of enormous predictive power. Just because a line of reasoning is counter-intuitive does not make that line of reasoning irrational. Counter-intuitive reasoning is often remarkably powerful.Elizabeth Liddle
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When Krauss and Hawking and others refer to "nothing" they really mean "the quantum vacuum that has always existed without any explanation of where it came from." I would seriously like them to stop hijacking the word "nothing" to mean something other than "nothing." If they want to believe that the universe always existed (and that matter is a very recent addition brought on by quantum fluctuations to that universe which has existed forever in the past) they are free to do so, but to call the quantum vacuum which has existed for an infinitely long time "nothing" is simply unexcusable.UrbanMysticDee
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If something came from nothing, nothing is not nothing, it is something. By attributing creative powers to nothing, one has made something out of nothing. Something-came-from-nothing "reasoning" is superbly irrational, and is yet another example of the grand tradition of nonsensical materialistic thinking.GilDodgen
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To Cornelius Hunter, anybody who denies special creation, whether of the Universe or of entities within it, is an evolutionist. Refer to his blog.Daniel King
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Evolution professor Lawrence Krauss is now saying that the universe, and everything in it, came from nothing.
Krauss is a physicist, not a biologist.champignon
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