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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 question is meaningless
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The question is meaningful, and No
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The question is meaningful, and Yes
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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 3, 2014 at 3:22 pm
(April 3, 2014 at 3:21 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(April 3, 2014 at 3:08 pm)max-greece Wrote: Actually, again, it isn't. There is no evidence that "nothing" - depending on how we want to define that, can actually exist.

I believe that's why he stated it's a nonsensical question. It is, IMHO, absurd to inquire into the possible location of something which cannot exist (even conceptually, again IMHO).

Nothing is absence of anything.
The question is can there be absence of anything. Or is there always something.
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