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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 11, 2014 at 10:47 pm (This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 10:48 pm by Whateverist.)
(April 11, 2014 at 8:08 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: I concluded that the sentence fragment "from nothing" has the same meaning as "not from anything",
thus I concluded that there must be something that came from nothing (didn't come from anything) otherwise nothing would exist.

I doubt if cosmology is answerable to the logical syntax of our language, so inference from the language is suspect.

But why do you assume that there was ever nothing for something to come from? I find it extremely doubtful that a true nothing ever existed or ever will.
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RE: The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing? - by Whateverist - April 11, 2014 at 10:47 pm

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