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[Comments concerning the headline: "Scientists create matter from nothing in groundbreaking experiment”]

It is an interesting claim indeed. As I read his article, I noticed that [writer] Joshua Hawkins seems to have missed all of the important points he recorded, which actually expose the title as being false. First, Josh starts with "Scientists." I would presume he and the scientists would believe they are intelligent. So, the research begins and is guided by intelligent designers, not random chance. Joshua progresses to "colliding two particles in empty space can sometimes cause additional particles to emerge." Two colliding particles are by definition, something. Where did they come from? The intelligent "researchers created strong enough electric fields in their laboratory to level the unique properties of a material known as graphene." So in a laboratory (that is something) "electric fields" also something) were used, which would have been drawn from preexisting electricity that is manufactured from other preexisting equipment using preexisting fuel to manufacture the electricity driving the electrical fields. In turn, they generated graphene. This hardly qualifies as "the researchers were able to enable the spontaneous creation of particle-antiparticle pairs from nothing at all." Science fiction and wishful thinking can carry someone a long way. 

—L.L. (Don) Veinot Jr. (co-founder and President of Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc., an apologetics ministry and mission to new religious movements)