Why “Nothing Means Nothing” Means God Almighty (and nothing less)

In the Big Bang everything, all matter, energy, space, and time, came into existence out of nothing.  I am assuming as I write this that readers have perused previous postings where I lay out the evidence supporting this assertion.  I consider that standard definitions are the necessary rule for rational discussion.  By “everything” I mean literally everything that exists, and by “nothing” I mean literal “nothingness,” that is, “nothing what-so-ever.”  Nothingness is an extremely rare commodity.  Indeed nothingness as a commodity (as opposed to an abstract idea) has never, ever, existed except before the beginning of the universe out of nothing.  In fact it is not even linguistically valid to speak of the existence of such nothingness since “nothing,” by definition means “non-existence.”

Quantum particles are not nothing.  The Higgs bosen is not nothing.  Anti-matter is not nothing (it is instead negatively-charged particles opposite positive ones).  Gravity is not nothing and neither are gravitational fields.  And a vacuum emphatically isn't nothing either since it requires both real boundaries and a field.  These are all EXISTENT entities that require someone (or something) else to account for their respective existences.  Famous names in the scientific arena, Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss, to name the most noted ones, have appealed to one or more of the above list of factors as the cause for the existence of the universe.  But in doing so they are mistakenly appealing to already existing entities in order to account for the existence of anything period.  Every such attempt involves the commission of fundamental categorical philosophical errors.  I recommend to you John Lennox’ book, God and Stephen Hawking (Lion Hudson, 2011,) which is an excellent scholarly rebuttal of Hawking’s fallacious assertions.  Lennox, a professor of both mathematics and the philosophy of science at Oxford University, and also a Christian, has debated a number of leading atheists on these matters. 

To expand on what I stated in my very first sentence above, before the Big Bang there was no matter at all to work with.  Neither was there any energy that could be put to work.  Neither was there any space (arena or field) in which a work could have happened.  Nor was there any time whatsoever prior to the Big Bang in which any chain of events could have taken place.  My atheist, debate counter-part stated in our debate on the existence of God this last December 10, that it is more rational to admit we simply don’t know how the universe came into existence out of nothing than it is to appeal to a so-called “god” to account for our universe.  I emphatically disagree.  Apart from the existence of the four categories I just mentioned, there is no potentiality for science to account for our beginning, even in principle.

It is irrational to believe a universe which came to be, did so out of absolute nothingness.  Since that “nothingness,” however, cannot be denied, it is reasonable, and I argue is rationally required, to believe, as the Bible declares, that the everlasting, almighty, and intelligent God brought all things into existence from outside this cosmos by the power of His own word (Hebrews 11:3).