How could something come from nothing?

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As a Christian, I feel like this question needs to be discussed on here instead of just stating "this is truth, and this is not". I will start:

If someone is holding a piece of paper, and he drops it, what are the chances of it becoming a paper airplane? None. If one drops a piece of paper, nothing significant would happen. However, if this person were to take the piece of paper and fold it into a paper airplane, what would he have? Well, a paper airplane.

Now apply this example to the universe. Does it look like something that just got dropped, even though we help the trees live from breathing out carbon dioxide, and the trees help us live from giving off oxygen? Is it a coincidence that we have the ability to appreciate beauty and feel love? Etc...

While discussing on this tread, try to avoid stating conclusions too often, unless you are answering someone's question.

Why do you want to apply this question to the universe when you are unwilling to ask the same question about the God you believe in? And if you have asked the question about your God and found a satisfactory answer then why cannot you accept the answer that nonbelievers give about the univers because your explanation about the origin of you God is more irrational and implausible.

Something doesn't come from nothing. That's a popular misconception among christians.

Everything is made of atoms, and atoms have been around since the beginning of the universe. Depending on how the atoms are arranged, you get different molecules. Everything in the universe is made of molecules. For example, you have oxygen molecules made of two oxygen atoms floating around in the atmosphere. When UV radiation from the sun hits those molecules, it breaks the oxygen atoms apart, and they can join back together to form oxygen again, or three of them can join together to form ozone. (That's what forms the ozone layer, which is what protects us from the sun's radiation).

Hydrogen and oxygen are both gases. If two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom bind together, you get water.
There are different configurations that atoms like to bond into most often. Those bonds are the strongest and most stable bonds. That's why we have stable molecules and some unstable molecules. (Sometimes atoms bind together because they have available spaces for other atoms to bind to, but the bonds aren't very stable. Those molecules are easily broken apart). Things like oxygen and water are stable molecules. The atoms in water are very difficult to break apart. You might have heard people talking about hydrogen powered cars, and how they can get hydrogen from water, but it takes an immense amount of power to do it. It's because the hydrogen and oxygen atoms have a very strong bond that's really hard to break.

The atmosphere on earth billions of years ago would have been poisonous to humans. It has changed over time because the molecules joined together in different configurations to produce different elements.

Fact of the matter is, that something DOES come of nothing.

You could say that the total amount of energy in the universe is the same. So that the Universe will expand, collapse, expand, collapse and continue for all eternity.

But studies show this is clearly not the case. The universe expands and continues expansion with a higher and higher speed, it accelerates, not only that, the acceleration goes faster and faster and there is no reason to believe that the acceleration will ever slow down.

If we have to take the recent scientific studies seriously, something DOES come of nothing.

This is why I am agnostic, a passive one at that. There things that are impossible to know, what point is there pondering something that cannot be answered? Just makes my head hurt thinking about it.

For this discussion to go anywhere, we first need a universally accepted definition of 'nothing' and an example of where this 'nothing' might exist in the Universe, past or present.

Something must have always existed, in some form or another.

Maybe 'something' (ie matter, and energy) always existed. And there was no starting point in which matter came from nothing. There was always something, and there was never just nothing.

Or maybe there was no 'before' matter existed because time itsself did not exist prior to the appearance of matter and energy.

Or maybe there actually was a diety.In the time prior to all surviving evidence we can observed today: a god happened by, snapped his finger, and 'something' (matter and energy) magically appeared were there was only a void before.

And then what have observed through evidence followed: the Big Bang, and 18 billion years of steller, chemical, and biological evolution. So there was a god, but he did things in an evolutionary fashion that bares no similarity to the tale told in Genesis.

Someone on WP wrote "it wouldnt even BE heaven if there were no dogs there."

But where does the Bible say anything about even humans going to heaven?