Nothing Can Be Created From Nothing

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    1. Major Implications:
      1. The universe as a whole is eternal and was never created by supernatural gods.
    2. Citations:
      1. Epicurus to Herodotus, line 38
        1. Bailey: "[N]othing is created out of that which does not exist: for if it were, everything would be created out of everything with no need of seeds. "
      2. Lucretius 1:146
        1. Bailey: "This terror then, this darkness of the mind, must needs be scattered not by the rays of the sun and the gleaming shafts of day, but by the outer view and the inner law of nature; whose first rule shall take its start for us from this, that nothing is ever begotten of nothing by divine will."
    3. Notes: A more precise translation than Bailey renders would likely be: "Nothing can be created from that which did not previously exist." In general the point is that everything comes from that which already exists, meaning that nothing comes from that which does not already exist.
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