Quote from Wallet:
Hummm, nothing is nothing, syntax
Please explain where the something somewhere before came from? You can peel back the onion all you want but somewhere back in the line, something had to originate from nothing, a starting point to all matter.
No there does NOT have to be a time that there was nothing. Everything we see has come from something before. Never has anything ever come from nothing. We have no reason not to think everything always was.