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The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?

Poll: Do you think the question "can something come from nothing" is a problem for atheism?
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The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?
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RE: The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?
April 10, 2014 at 7:01 am
(April 10, 2014 at 6:52 am)alpha male Wrote:
(April 9, 2014 at 11:53 am)pocaracas Wrote: The big bang has been dated to about 13.7 billion years ago.

What was there before? Was there anything before? Does a "before" make sense?
- To all, "I don't know" is the most honest response.
I don't know is the most honest answer to many questions for which we speculate about the possibilities anyway.
Indeed.

And yet, many theists fail to realize that their speculations are just that.

(April 10, 2014 at 6:52 am)alpha male Wrote:
Quote:The often claimed age of the Universe reports to the length of time since the big bang... not necessarily the actual age of the Universe.
To my understanding it's thought that the universe existed as a singularity before the big bang. If the singularity had existed eternally, I would expect it to continue to exist as a singularity eternally. Yet, we had a big bang.

Some have speculated on an oscillating universe, but models of such don't work with certain observations.

What if the singularity didn't exist eternally?
What if there was an oscillating universe that, on the last iteration lost something extra and is now non-oscillating?
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