Krauss» fallacious account of how something can come from nothing, though presented as a great breakthrough, and praised as such by
Dawkins in his
afterword, is largely a rehash of ideas already put forward by Hawking, Mlodinow, and some less eminent physics popularizers.
Yet despite its clear strengths, A Universe From Nothing is not quite, as Richard
Dawkins hopefully declares in the
afterword, a «knockout blow» for the idea that a deity must have kicked the universe into being.