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the universe from nothing. Let us briefly mention
(Krauss, 2012) For, if the that any response to this

universe owes its origin to question raises further
the quantum theory problems. If the physical
combined with the laws are the product of

cosmological model of singularity, they cannot
inflation, “then quantum create the singularity and
theory must have existed our universe. If, however, it

before the universe. is assumed that the laws of
So, the next question is nature existed pre-Big
surely: Where did the laws Bang as some abstract

of quantum theory come eternal and self-necessary
from?” (Chown, 2012: 35) entities, then the emergence
of the universe would be

from something, not out of
1. Interestingly, when Krauss nothing.
laments that “some philosophers
and many theologians define and This assumption also
redefine ‘nothing’ as not being any violates some atheists’
of the versions of nothing that
scientists currently describe,” and axiom who believe that
that, [he is] told by religious critics “The Cosmos is all that is
that [he] cannot refer to empty
space as ‘nothing,’ but rather as a or ever was or ever will be”.
‘quantum vacuum,’ to distinguish it (Sagan, 1985: 1)
from the philosopher’s or Also, this is a
theologian’s idealized ‘nothing’.
Albert (2012) in his review of the metaphysical speculation
book responds that “all there is to and conjecture, not a
say about this, as far as I can see, is
that Krauss is dead wrong and his scientific achievement, and
religious and philosophical critics no scientific evidence
are absolutely right”.