On the subject of Hell and Salvation

[Belacqua]

The clip below  features Lawrence Krauss, an actual scientist, explaining how something can come from nothing.v. This is meant to perhaps give you some ammo, not in anyway  to patronise or  criticise you.

Lawrence Krauss has a large Wiki entry (yes he may have been naughty, but that does not change his basic credentials)

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born 1954) is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and a former professor at Yale University and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as its director until July 2018.[2] In response to allegations about sexual misconduct by Krauss, ASU conducted an investigation. Having determined that Krauss had violated university policy, they removed him from his position.[3][4]

I read Krauss' book a few years ago. I'm afraid that the title oversells it. 

The real case he makes is why, given the laws of nature as they are, the universe persists in existence. 

This doesn't say why there is something rather than nothing, because he begins with the laws of nature as givens. Thus, there was something (laws of nature) in order to make the next something (the universe). 

In effect, he doesn't say it's turtles all the way down, but he does begin with the turtle he finds convenient and works up from there. Science can't explain where the laws of nature come from. And he recognizes this, late in the book.

It's an interesting book, but a more honest title would be something like "The Current State of Cosmology, 2013: Why The Universe Isn't Likely to Go Away." 

But I don't know if he's to blame for the title. We live in a capitalist world, publishers need to make money, and authors don't always get to choose their own title. My publisher refused my own cool title in favor of something that would be found easily on Amazon.