> The author TOTALLY misses the point [...]

OTOH, you're failing to comprehend what the key word - nothing - means :-) Look here:

> how if there was at one point nothing, how is there now something?

See, you're imagining two points in time. Some stuff exists in the second moment, but not the first. However, since you're saying "one point" and "now" you are assuming that time exists in both instants. But if time exists then this is already something and not nothing. The true nothing excludes time, space and all the junk in it. Nothing is really just