(February 28, 2013 at 8:00 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Because it's not. It had a beginning called the 'Big Bang'.
The Big Bang is the beginning of the universe as we know it. There is no indication what was going on prior to that event, assuming that time operated in any way we would recognize.
It is only theists who take 'something from nothing' literally seriously. The accurate way to describe it would be 'something from we have no idea what'.