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Write4U wrote: “Since when has a scientific (rather than a biblical) explanation been proven to be a logical impossibility?  Can we start with that, please?”

As I understand it, Sherlock believes that the universe originated from literally “nothing”, which he defines as the complete absence of anything having any quality whatsoever. From this he deduces that since science deals only with things that have existence, it cannot formulate any theory about how it came to exist from “nothing”. This, he says, is “cold logic”.

Personally I tend to agree with what you yourself wrote earlier (post #307134). From his premise, the logical deduction that I would make is that the universe must NOT have originated from “nothing” because that would be a contradiction in terms. The universe must have ALWAYS had some quality or another. The Big Bang represents not so much the origin of the universe as a change from one state to another. But then I’m just an ignorant layman.