New Book: A Universe from Nothing | Arizona State University professor Lawrence M. Krauss

Hayagriva, Philosophy Discussions, 1973: Unlike Plato and Aristotle, Aquinas believed that God created the universe out of nothing and He…
Prabhupada: No.
Hayagriva: He created the universe out of nothing.
Prabhupada: No. The universe is created by God. How you can say “out of nothing”? God is there. So before creation of the universe God was there, so you cannot say that the universe was created out of nothing.
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Book explores discoveries in cosmology and how our universe could have come from nothing
Physorg.com, December 12, 2011 — The earliest philosophers argued that out of nothing, nothing comes (ex nihilo, nihil fit). This ignited intense philosophical and theological debates and invoked challenging questions over the coming centuries. How could our universe in all its complexity come into existence from absolute nothingness, if nothing comes from nothing? In his new book, “A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing (Free Press; January 10, 2012),” Arizona State University professor Lawrence M. Krauss explains how recent revolutions in our understanding of physics and cosmology allow modern science to address the question of why there is something rather than nothing, and more importantly, why this is a scientific question rather than a philosophical or theological one. Full article