https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-is-life/
A technologist takes a stab at the age old question.
“It turns out that all life on Earth also shares a single architecture. And at least on Earth, that massively simplifies the discussion – Anything built on that architecture is life, and we have yet to encounter anything that is remotely living that is not based on that architecture.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/endless-creation-out-of-nothing/
The subhead gives away a lot: “Could our universe have been an experiment by an ancient civilization?”. That’s not creation “out of nothing”… that’s just kicking the creation can down the road.
What the author seems to be saying is that it’s potentially possible to create universes “artificially”. Okay.
Also, there is no such thing as “nothing”, at least not in space because seemingly empty space always has “something” in it. Okay.