"You can't get something from nothing"
"A common creationist argument. It is based on the assumption that the big bang theory states that before the big bang there was literally nothing. Of course the big bang theory says nothing about what was before the big bang. The big bang theory is not a theory of the origin of the universe.
The truth is we don't know what was before the big bang. Information from before the big bang has been lost, with out information we don't have anything to base hypotheses on.
"In the beginning there was nothing and it exploded."
This variant of the argument goes beyond "something from nothing" it is a full on straw man.
Firstly: The term "big bang" was coined by Fred Hoyle an astronomer who rejected the idea of the big bang in favor of the steady state theory. He coined the term "big bang" as a derisive term and it stuck.
Secondly: The big bang was not an explosion, it was an expansion of space time. Space time itself rapidly expanded.
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