How are we here..?

I use a computer. cn

We got here from being so badass that ore badassedness made our single celled ancestors pop out of nowhere onto the earth.

I'm not sure. I'd love to hear this answer. Prepare for a confusing one.

Shannon, to answer your statement that something cannot come from nothing ... Big Bang theory says pretty much that yes, it can. A sort of agnosticism can be invoked: while the Universe supposedly "nucleated" into a higher-dimensional continuum ... since we cannot know anything directly about that postulated supercontinuum, it can be termed "not a thing". We can't even properly say if the supercontinuum "existed" "before" ... the parallels to "and the God separated the waters above from those below" are there imo. cn

Well, as I understand the theory, before the BB there wasn't nothing; all existence was compressed into a incredibly small hot, dense "point" before inflating into existence as we know it. So, it's not something from nothing. Or the branes colliding hypothesis in M theory, still not something from nothing...

What made that small dense point of existence though? Surely at some point there had to be absolutely nothing, no atoms floating around to create a small dense point of matter, just nothing. Nothing to evolve into more nothing to create nothing.

That's the thing ... time and space as we know it emerged into that initial time place density temperature of moment 1. So "before", there was simply no "there" there. cn

Originally Posted by Chief Walkin Eagle

What made that small dense point of existence though? Surely at some point there had to be absolutely nothing, no atoms floating around to create a small dense point of matter, just nothing. Nothing to evolve into more nothing to create nothing.

God did it . I would imagine that existence is axiomatic, it simply changes forms. I don't think there was ever 'nothing'...