It just doesn’t make sense to me when scientists say stuff like this. Even in science they say that matter and energy cannot be destroyed nor created, only changed. It seems contradictory to me for them then to also say that the universe could be created from “nothing.”
Me neither. I think there isn't enough questioning of the comments made by "noted" academics. People forget it is the "outliers" that are the creators of big scientific jumps and most of them are pretty quick to acknowledge the existence of God.