Reply #36: OK, you said...

[Tafiti]

"Someone please show me how matter or energy can spring into existence from an original nothingness. That takes faith that is way beyond anything I can muster."

Well then, please show me how "GOD" can just EXIST in an original nothingness. THAT takes just as much faith. I'll say it again, the problem is the same for theists and atheists. Your argument is just as plausible or implausible as an atheist's.

Since you, or anyone else, can't wrap their minds around this concept, you're asserting a belief in an all-powerful, all-knowing God that did it. Hey, sounds impossible, but it's GOD! If He can't do it, no one can!