Atheists insist that all of nature can be explained on its
own terms without invoking a supernatural creator.
Some argue, as does Lawrence Krauss in his recent
book, A Universe from Nothing, that modern science has now
made it plausible that space-time, matter-energy, and even the
universe can emerge from nothing. As we shall see, these ideas
are self-contradictory and not aligned with current thinking,
even in the secular scientific community, concerning the possibility of a universe existing in the eternal past. Krauss does
provide his readers with interesting insights into physics, the
Big Bang theory, virtual particles, dark matter, inflation theory,
the “landscape” of a multiverse, dark energy, relativity, string
theory, and science associated with these topics.