[Alter Kaker]

Consider for a moment that we know nothing about creating matter out of nothing.

I'm not sure what there is to consider: you're flat-out wrong. I'm a little rusty on my quantum mechanics (any physicists here?) but I seem to recall vacuum fluctuations as well as a number of other ways to create matter out of "nothing." I guess in at least some respects, e=mc^2 is creating matter out of "nothing."

It's the elitists who seem to forget the concept of humility!

If you say so. I don't know who you're calling "elitist," but I don't think there's anybody more arrogant than those who think that they can understand the universe and how it came to be from two chapters of Genesis alone.

[metmom]

So exactly what matter have scientists created out of nothing? I thought that was a little beyond our current technology.

[metmom]

If you say so. I don't know who you're calling "elitist," but I don't think there's anybody more arrogant than those who think that they can understand the universe and how it came to be from two chapters of Genesis alone.

Sure there is. Scientists who think they can understand the universe and how it came to be just by looking at it and running it in reverse.