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What is “precisely nothing”? Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss used that phrase in the preface of his 2012 New York Times best-selling book titled A Universe from Nothing. Krauss, at that time, was a professor at Arizona State University and head of the Origins Project there. He later lost that position due to “moral failure,” and he is now an anti-theist blogger. An anti-theist is more than just an atheist; he does not believe in God but also actively opposes faith in a Creator. Like other anti-theists, he believes that faith in God is not only wrong but also harmful to society.

On what did Krauss base his statement that there was “remarkable new support for the idea that our universe arose from precisely nothing”? Krauss suggests that quantum gravity fluctuations could enable “the creation, albeit perhaps momentarily, of space itself where none existed before.” Furthermore, “small-density fluctuations in empty space due to the rules of quantum mechanics will later be responsible for all the structures we observe in the universe today. So we, and everything we see, result from quantum fluctuations in what is essentially nothingness … .” He also writes that the universe arose through “a process whereby the energy of empty space (nothing) gets converted into the energy of something.”

Is what Krauss calls “precisely nothing” truly nothing? You might feel the same way I do — that someone is trying to deceive you into believing nonsense. When he writes that “getting something from nothing is not a problem,” I find it hard to believe him. I prefer a straightforward explanation for why there is something instead of nothing. It is explained in Genesis 1:1.

— Roland Earnst

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