Atheists simple YES/NO question, can something come from nothing?

Answer 1

Yes.

Look up 'virtual particles'.

Answer 2

The problem is not your question, it is the perspective. We educate ourselves and think with enlightened minds. We understand that that matter can neither be destroyed nor created but it's shaped or form can be changed. Take something as simple as water, you can heat it and it turns into steam, you haven't destroyed it, simply changed it's form. So for that example the theory holds that matter cannot be destroyed. Where am I going with this??

Your perspective it that if matter cannot be created than all of this was here without the event of a "GOD" and "GOD" was created by the ancients in order to explain the unexplainable. If this is your thinking than you're thinking as a human would think because, you're right, we cannot create anything. How can anyone still believe that evolution is a probability when it has been stated over and over again by hundreds if not thousands, "If people evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys on this planet?" how come they all haven't evolved???

Whatsmore, no half developed monkey people (remains, fossils) have ever been found to even support that evolution could even be a possibility for why life exists on this planet.

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Answer 3

Yes

Answer 4

You want to look at the new Quantum Theories on the beginning of everything. Big Bang has been replaced with a very interesting theory on crossed membranes.

It causes all of the "matter and energy cannot be destroyed or created, only converted" answers to come into question again. The rule is still true of course but with the possibility of new sources and targets (branes) it becomes interesting.

It at least gives new discussion to things like "god before he made all" or "where did god stand before making the universe"

Answer 5

Isn't this a question for the physicists?

1) No. Something must come from something.
2) Yes. Something can come from nothing, but we have to redefine our notion of "nothing".

Answer 6

Yes.

Answer 7

Yes.

Answer 8

I don't know.

I would guess "no," but I am not a physicist and some of the better educated responders have said otherwise. So I will defer my opinion to their own. Science does show us many weird things about the universe -- black holes, neutron stars, dark matter. I wouldn't be surprised if it continued to confound my reasoning. In any case the universe should not be approached with biases, for instance, that it needed a creator. There is no evidence that it would. And we've already seen how natural processes on our own planet (evolution) can lead to sentience.

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

Do amino acids come from nothing? By your definition and reasoning... yes. They "spontaneously" form in space & other environments. Funny how they are the building blocks of life.

Learn some science

EDIT: Oh wait... maybe its not the origin of life you're after... is it the big bang you're attacking? So we should insert a god of your choice... why? How does an eternal god make any more sense than eternal mass/energy... or quantum fluctuations burping our universe into existence.

Answer 11

YES! Wikipedia the organization CERN. It is in switzerland, and a couple years ago they created matter (and anti-matter) in a large particle accelerator. There was nothing, then there was something.