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Baroque_Dude said:

I can't accept as something "scientific" the explanation that a lot of millions ago a BIG BOOM just created everything and from nothing emerged the very first form of life that has been evolving into EVERYTHING we see besides rocks and water. Where they there to empirically observe and check that procedure? This is another way of creationism, just theirs.

First of all, the Big Bang Theory doesnt say what caused the Big Bang, or if there was anything before the Big Bang.  In fact, most scientists are convinced that we could never answer these questions.

Secondly, we get something from nothing all the time, in the form of quantum fluctuations.  A quantum fluctuation is a brief violation of the conservation of mass and energy, though the amount of mass and energy overall is conserved and whatever particle that was created will quickly be destroyed.  This is also very important to Hawking's Theory of Hawking Radiation, and if black holes didn't evaporate then we should have been engulfed in a black hole a long time ago.

The universe could very well be a stable quantum fluctuation.  If so then BOOM, everything from nothing.