EXPLAIN THIS: New Episode of the ‘Science Uprising,’ on Something From Nothing?

You are walking along a corridor of offices in the Dirksen Senate Office Building and suddenly, with no warning, a wall appears out of nowhere, blocking your forward progress and causing you to drop the files you were carrying. Sounds implausible, right?

Everybody knows walls don’t just suddenly appear where nothing stood an instant before. Put another way, something doesn’t come from nothing. Somebody has to bring all the materials required to construct a wall, the blueprint to make sure the thing is assembled properly has to be deciphered, and the requisite training and experience must be present for the finished product to appear.

Put another way, walls don’t appear out of nothing, they require a creator. Philosopher Martin Heidegger called it “the fundamental question” (for which he had no answer). A lot of folks today simply dismiss it as a false dichotomy, or redefine “nothing” as something. Aristotle, by the way, defined nothing as “what rocks think about.”

Now, with all of that in mind, check out the newest edition of the “Science Uprising” from the Discovery Institute, entitled “Big Bang: Something From Nothing?” Only this time, instead of a mysterious wall appearing in Dirksen, the issue is how could the universe appear out of nothing?

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And What About All Those ‘Chicken and Egg’ Dilemmas?

You know, which came first, the chicken or the egg. Only in the realm of biology and the puzzle of the origin of life, it’s things like proteins or ribosomes, DNA or RNA, and so forth and so on. Explaining the very first living cell presents a host of such dilemmas, as Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallace explains.