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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 3, 2014 at 10:42 am
(April 3, 2014 at 10:38 am)alpha male Wrote:
(April 3, 2014 at 10:27 am)Alex K Wrote: My point: why isn't there such a force?
Because it's against the laws of physics.
For my purposes here I don't count emergent laws which only hold statistically for many particles among the fundamental laws of physics.

Point taken about the distraction, I'm thinking about how to streamline the whole thing
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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