Theists often accuse atheists of believing that the universe came from nothing. I admit that we do not have any good explanation for the universe other than the Big Bang theory which only explains the expansion. But, that is no reason to turn to religious explanations. We shouldn’t even speculate in religious terms because it is not falsifiable and therefore not scientific.

Scientifically speaking it is possible for the universe’s total energy to be zero. The universe would exist in negative and positive parts. Gravity for example, is one of forces associated with the negative. When an object falls from rest (a state of zero energy), it gains kinetic energy as it falls. But, this gain in energy is balanced exactly by a larger gravitational energy as it comes closer to the Earth’s centre, so the sum of the two energies remains zero.

Furthermore, the inflationary theory of the universe tells us that only a small amount of energy was required to start the Big Bang. This small amount of energy can be explained with Quantum theory’s quantum fluctuations which occur when pairs of particles and antiparticles spontaneously form and annihilate eachother. There is a possibility that one of these quantum fluctuations lasted long enough in order to jump start the universe.

This is only a hypothesis, but it uses scientific laws and theories to arrive at it. We will never observe the birth of a universe so this may be the closest we will get to explaining the origin of the universe. So, as you can see theists the universe may have come from nothing. Inserting a god only creates more problems and begs more questions. If you think that “everything came from nothing” is unscientific think again.

Sources:
http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/31_02/nothing.html (http://www NULL.astrosociety NULL.org/pubs/mercury/31_02/nothing NULL.html)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&feature=sub (http://www NULL.youtube NULL.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&feature=sub)

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