Making something from nothing?

I wish to reply to the Feb. 28 letter to the editor by Dr. Robert Nishikawa titled, "There's no evidence evolution is false."

He writes that "scientists do not believe in something without proof that it is true." Bill Bryson has written a book entitled, "A Short History of Nearly Everything". He writes, "Some tiny bag of chemicals twitched and become animate."

Where is the scientific proof of this? Have we been able to prove it even in carefully controlled laboratory experiments? He goes on to say, "It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can."

Where is the scientific proof that you can get something from nothing? It sounds like magic to me.

Elton Heimsoth

Lombard