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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 4, 2014 at 3:43 am
I suppose the reason this gets invoked so often is that so many people's naive intuition seems to be that nothing preceded anything. Personally I find that entirely unintuitive, as I do the notion that time and space had an absolute beginning. In a frothy multi-verse, 'absolute' beginnings dissolve into a circulating batch of what has always been .. in some form or another. And within any particular big bangy event, major categories of stuff can appear to come from nothing. But those of us who believe in the multi-verse can exchange knowing winks.
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RE: The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing? - by Whateverist - April 4, 2014 at 3:43 am

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