The headline overstates the case, but that is not the authors' fault. Still:
As recent advances in cosmology suggest, the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.
"Spontaneous creation" hardly gets us anywhere beyond "we're here because we're here because we're here." Everything just happens to be and is governed by these law thingies. I thought the question had to do with exactly how something can be created out of nothing. If these "advances" simply tell us that something can come from nothing, they hardly tell us anything we haven't been pondering forever. Where did the universe come from? Oh, that's easy: It appeared spontaneously out of nothing! Awesome!
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