Nothing Comes From Nothing

Nothing Comes From Nothing                     December 15, 2024

As Maria (Julie Andrews) sang of her love for Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s hit musical, “The Sound of Music,” she stated what ought to be an obvious truth: “Nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.”  She was expressing her belief that there had to be a reason behind their love for each other, though she couldn’t pinpoint just what the reason was.

The truth that nothing comes from nothing applies in other contexts, too.  For example, there must be a reason the universe exists.  Many “scientists” maintain that it originated in a gigantic explosion.  Guess what exploded?  If you said “nothing,” you got it!  That’s so absurd on the face of it: the “singularity.”  But of what does “the singularity” consist?  Nothing.

Though it is called the “Big Bang Theory,” it really fails the test of being a theory at all.  By definition, a theory can be tested and must be capable of being falsified.  How would one test whether “nothing” can become “something”?  Big Bang adherents acknowledge that no human was there to observe the Big Bang.  Likewise, no one has observed “nothing” become “something.”  At best, it’s the “Big Bang Hypothesis,” and it really isn’t even a very good hypothesis.

Reasonable people know that nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.  But the fact is, “something” exists (the universe, including us).  The scientific laws of thermodynamics show that matter is not eternal.  The universe had a beginning.  Therefore, something or someone non-material must have brought the universe into being.  That someone or something must be eternal, existing prior to the beginning of the universe.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).

By Joe Slater