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>>9973469
Not him, but there is no scientific claim that something came from nothing in big bang theory. It doesn't cover anything "before time", nor before the singularity (or really, even the singularity itself).

Closest you get to this, is the potential of the idea of the quantum vacuum potential being the cause of the event, but some would argue that a potential something, is still something. (Even if quantum potentials, or even particles, are not objects as we traditionally think of them.)

Current cosmology comes closer to saying there is no such thing as truly "nothing" (thus the universe is technically eternal), but even there, hasn't closed the book on the subject.

So whenever you hear the argument, "Something can't come from nothing", in regards to modern cosmological genesis theory, know that you are hearing an ontological scarecrow. One that the religious and angry anti-establishment folks have been using since Saint Anselm, back in the 10th century.