[donh]

I just think "something from nothing" is outside the scope of natural science - very much like the supernatural. It might be within the scope of math, as well as philosophy. It might even be complimentary to science. But I am skeptical that science could be used exclusively to support such a claim.

Exactly right. "something from nothing" is a supernatural claim, just as is the law of conservation of something-ness" you have proposed. There is no scientific law that states that something must come from something. If there were, you could locate it for me in a scientific treatise.

[unlearner]

"Exactly right. 'something from nothing' is a supernatural claim"

Wow. We do agree on something. That's not nothing. ;-)