The universe really did come from nothing

[deke t lefel]

In quantum mechanics if you have nothing, you'll always have something. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can't be created nor destroyed.

If you add up all the positive energy in the universe and then all the negative energy in the universe created by gravity you'll find that the total energy of the universe is zero. Which means that there didn't need to be any energy for the universe to be created.

The problem with religion is it falls so far behind that when you try to explain this stuff to someone who believes in god, they think you're talking nonsense.

Taoism came up with stuff like this thousands of years ago, including ideas on the creation of the universe from some sort of primordial cosmic soup

Yin can be taken as dark, earth, negative, gravity
Yang as light, sun, positive, fire