We know that Creationists like to characterize the athiest worldview as "Nothing happened to nothing for a long time until it became everything". [Spirituality & Religion]

They like to use this description to show how silly that idea is.
Let's move right on by the fact that they accept an eternal, omnipotent sentience that has always existed and examine the concept of nothing.

What makes creationists think that an atheist believes there was nothing?
Whoever decided that nothing is the default state which something must replace?
What reason do we have to suppose that nothing ever existed.
Has anyone ever observed nothing? Is there any proof that nothing is even possible?

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Goralski · 51-55, M

Yes there is....sometimes I have nothing left on my debit card

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@Goralski:

Yes, but there's a big difference between there is no money left in your account and there is an absence of existence.

Goralski · 51-55, M

@MetalGreymon: d absence of money is detrimental to my existence

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@Goralski:

Sure. But that's not the same thing as nothing existing

Goralski · 51-55, M

@MetalGreymon: if its not there it doesn't exist....like an woolly mammoth

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@Goralski:

Define "doesn't exist".
Does it mean the absence of all matter time and space? What makes you think such a thing is even possible?

Goralski · 51-55, M

@MetalGreymon: in d minds of us humans there's always gotta b a absolute beginning and end I guess that's what happens when we obtained the ability to recognize our own mortality

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@Goralski:

Our inability to conceptualize infinity does not necessitate the existence of a beginning and end

Goralski · 51-55, M

@MetalGreymon: if that is d case...a theory is just a theory

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@Goralski:

if dat is d case, den d theory is just dat, a theory. A dat means d predictive description of d evidence.
Unless u mean colloquial theory in which case dat is just d unfounded assertion of an opinion.

Goralski · 51-55, M

@MetalGreymon: one is as good as another

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@Goralski:

nope