A Scientific Impossibility...

"Ray Comfort is a dishonest propagandist. He has been told hundreds of times that no atheist claims that atheism says 'nothing created everything'--yet he just repeats it anyway, over and over and over." Captain Howdy

• "It's no miracle, it requires no magic man in the sky, particle/anti-particle pairs just pop into existence constantly." PZ Myers, "Something Comes From Nothing. "http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/02/something_comes_from_nothing.php

• "If this admittedly speculative hypothesis is correct, then the answer to the ultimate question is that the universe is the ultimate free lunch! It came from nothing, and its total energy is zero, but it nevertheless has incredible structure and complexity." Alexei V. Filippenko and Jay M. Pasachoff, "A Universe from Nothing."

• "Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing."

• "So now you have an idea of just what went on in the early Universe, and how we got from nothing to something. But if you want the really short version, it runs like this, 'First there was nothing, then there was the Big Bang, and energy cooled down into matter, and we're made of matter, so here we are.'" Karl S. Kruszelnicki, "News in Science"

• "Prior to the singularity, nothing existed, not space, time, matter, or energy - nothing. So where and in what did the singularity appear if not in space? We don't know." "All About Science"

• "It is now becoming clear that everything can -- and probably did -- come from nothing." Robert A. J. Matthews, physicist, Ashton University, England

• "Space and time both started at the Big Bang and therefore there was nothing before it." Cornell University "Ask an Astronomer."

• "The universe burst into something from absolutely nothing—zero, nada. And as it got bigger, it became filled with even more stuff that came from absolutely nowhere." Discover magazine, April 2002.

• "Maybe the universe itself sprang into existence out of nothingness - a gigantic vacuum fluctuation which we know today as the big bang. Remarkably, the laws of modern physics allow for this possibility. (Pagels, 1982, 247)." --"How the Universe can come from Nothing."

• "Some physicists believe our universe was created by colliding with another, but Kaku [a theoretical physicist at City University of New York] says it also may have sprung from nothing . . . " Scienceline.org

• "Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific." Paul Davies, physicist, Arizona State University

• "Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with . . . Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God." Victor J. Stenger, atheist, Prof. Physics, University of Hawaii. Author of, God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

• "This initial paucity of information is consistent with the notion that the universe sprang from nothing." The Universe Sprang From Nothing, Seth Lloyd, Physicist

• "Few people are aware of the fact that many modern physicists claim that things -- perhaps even the entire universe -- can indeed arise from nothing via natural processes." Creation ex nihilo -- Without God (1997), Atheist, Mark I. Vuletic

• "To understand these facts we have to turn to science. Where did they all come from, and how did they get so darned outrageous? Well, it all started with nothing." --"Fifty Outrageous Animal Facts," Animal Planet

• "To the average person it might seem obvious that nothing can happen in nothing. But to a quantum physicist, nothing is, in fact, something." Discover Magazine "Physics & Math/Cosmology"

• "It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation out of nothing, and how over the course of 15 billion years, matter could organize in such complex ways that we have human beings sitting here, talking, doing things intentionally." (Alan Harvey Guth theoretical physicist and cosmologist). Discover Magazine, April 1, 2002

• Richard Dawkins: "The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years AFTER THE UNIVERSE EVOLVED OUT OF LITERALLY NOTHING is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice." "From tail to tale on the path of pilgrims in life", The Scotsman (April 9, 2005, CAPS added)

• "But the latest scientific consensus asserts that the universe sprang naturally from nothing because the total energy of the universe equals zero (thanks to negative energy). Nature abhors a void and fills it with quantum fluctuations." "Is Everybody 100% Positive There is no God?" http://www.atheistnexus.org

• "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing...Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist." "Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11161493

• "To be fair, I actually think Ray won this round. He was challenged to show where atheists say 'everything comes from nothing', and he did ... There ARE atheists who say 'everything came from nothing', regardless of the details of the specific definitions in use." Whateverman (from WEARESMRT--atheist website)..

NOTES:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/02/something_comes_from_nothing.php
http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/31_02/nothing.html
http://richarddawkins.net/videos/4490-39-a-universe-from-nothing-39-by-lawrence-krauss-aai-2009
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2002/09/30/306464.htm
http://big-bang-theory.com/
http://creation.com/the-universe-is-nothingness-the-latest-cosmological-wild-guess
http://www.braungardt.com/Physics/Vacuum%20Fluctuation.htm
“IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?” http://www.atheistnexus.org