Something from nothing or a past-eternal something?

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Something from nothing or a past-eternal something?

This is a question for the atheists here.

What is more plausible to you: that the natural world (matter and energy) was produced by literally nothing (i.e. nonbeing)--or that the natural world, including all its processes, extends infinitely into the past such that there is no moment where one can say "there was no matter and energy causally prior to this moment."?

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