I'll give you the argument: religions posit that what amounts to nothing, exists. and science found evidence of it, hence the quote nothing and then everything.
This a problem of equating the philosophical/theological absolute nothing which religion posits and the scientific Quantum nothingness described as:
How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything | Quanta Magazine
The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum.
www.quantamagazine.org
Quantum Nothingness
Nothing started to seem like something in the 20th century, as physicists came to view reality as a collection of fields: objects that fill space with a value at each point (the electric field, for instance, tells you how much force an electron will feel in different places). In classical physics, a field’s value can be zero everywhere so that it has no influence and contains no energy. “Classically, the vacuum is boring,” said
Daniel Harlow, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Nothing is happening.”
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But physicists learned that the universe’s fields are quantum, not classical, which means they are inherently uncertain. You’ll never catch a quantum field with exactly zero energy. Harlow likens a quantum field to an array of pendulums — one at each point in space — whose angles represent the field’s values. Each pendulum hangs nearly straight down but jitters back and forth.
Left alone, a quantum field will stay in its minimum-energy configuration, known as its “true vacuum” or “ground state.” (
Elementary particles are ripples in these fields.) “When we talk about the vacuum of a system, we have in mind in some loose way the preferred state of the system,” said Garcia Garcia.
Most of the quantum fields that fill our universe have one, and only one, preferred state, in which they’ll remain for eternity. Most, but not all.
Our Universe, Created From Nothing . THERE WAS A TIME, perhaps 10 to 20 billion years ago, when the universe as we know it did not exist. At that "time,"...
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SOrry if I'm mad. You work so hard at something to find out what it is and it's a baby.
The above better explains the difference between the scientific and religious different views of nothing.
Not comfortable with your reference, because it does not give a clear definition of Quantum Nothing different from the Theist absolute nothing,
Also it brings in the discussion of chance or design without explanation.