Bottom line this is the empiricists hypothesis, pure cause and effect world view. Does this make sense?

I'm with you there man. The irrational are winning, unfortunatly. Evangelical Christianity is on its way to destroying everything America stands for here. Its unfortunate. Good explanation, but its a bit to out there to be completely conclusive. I dont think there is a "nothing". Is there ever really nothing? Time is so unmeasurable, there is no way we could go back to a time and see if there was ever just nothing there. Tiny bits of matter. Huuuuuge rock perhaps, coliding into each other and dividing. Science will never be able to explain everything, but religion does not do anything to attempt. Takes away your ability to try to find out.

1. that's not correct, nothing did not produce everything, energy did, by the laws of nature by which energy must act in this universe.

2. Energy causes life, just as it created the universe.

3. There is really no such things as randomness when understanding the constructs of the universe, everything happens as an affect of the natural laws of the universe.

4. This is not a universe of chaos, true chaos can not exist in this universe.

5. Again energy produces consciousness.

6. emotion and intellect together is the cause of art.

It make sense to me. How can rock cause a life-form to begin? It can't. A rock does not reproduce. For life to have started the very first cell had to be created. Created from what? Energy? How? What energy? I believe that God created the universe and the first life. Then evolution took over. When it came time to write a religious book, someone felt that they had to explain the beginning in some way. So they came up with a very creative fairy tale.