Atheism and the existence of peanut butter

[Mister Agenda]

A universe requires a cause, it can't just pop out of nothing.

Even you don't believe there was ever actual nothingness: no matter, no energy, no space, no time, no God. Even Stenger's 'Universe from Nothing' isn't talking about that kind of absolute nothingness. No scientific hypothesis for the origin of the universe starts with 'first, there was absolute nothingness and then there wasn't'.

'Why is there something instead of nothing?' is a philosophical question that can't be answered definitively, but I am satisfied with the answer that absolute nothingness is impossible. Where would it have been with no space? When would it have been with no time? It's one of those questions like 'What's north of the north pole?'.

At any rate, and you've been told this before, no one is claiming the universe just popped out of nothing.