Nothingness

[little_monkey]

I'm only saying that "something from nothing" is an idea that physicalists must avoid like the plague.

That's a cute one. Consider this:

(1) Scientists are proposing that the universe popped out of the vacuum, with evidence that this not only possible but very probable based on what has been observed so far with what the vacuum can do ( Hawking radiation, Casimir force, Higgs boson).

(2) Deists/theists have to invoke a God, (whose nature is problematic) who has created this something out of nothing by using pure magic.

Which is more credible?

Joe