Not a simulation, not created by a God: so how did the universe come to be? Can something arise naturally from nothing, after all? Many scientists think so, but not because a god overturned the idea that something cannot come from nothing. They also answer the related question of why there is something rather than nothing.
I’m not going to reiterate their explanation here, as you can read a summary for yourself (I’ve linked to a simple one for the sceptical among us and of course the diagram above makes it all clear.) Suffice to say, the theory demonstrates that ‘something’ came about when quantum particles popped into existence from nothing. We know they are capable of doing this, making them the Uncaused Cause. These particles led to ‘a chunk of inflationary vacuum’, from which, everything else arose..
And no, Don, unless he’s ‘a chunk of inflationary vacuum’, this is not your God. Nor did he conjure up the chunk .Before it appeared at the quantum level there was, according to this scientific theory, nothing: no God, nothing.
rejectingjesus, 
God: A mindless chunk of ever expanding inflationary vacuum. He does not act. Rather he is acted upon by the quantum.
And in Genesis 1 it wasn’t his breath but his inflationary vacuum that moved over the pre-existent cosmic ocean.
And he prefers Chonk to chunk as he feels chunk is body shaming. And also too Chonk must always be capitalized to remind everyone just how self-centered he is. Amen.
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No. it was the void, according to recent link Neil sent.
I think the idea of a void in which quantum particles or energy exists is a but contradictory. Maybe a better word could be chosen. How can you have a void with something in it?
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You manage it well enough.
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Nice “theory”. But let’s wait and see before jumping on that street car.
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