Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 12:47 (4624 days ago) @ dhw

I've shifted this discussion from the "Intelligent Cell" thread back to where it belongs.-DAVID: Why is there something rather than nothing? The most profound question in philosophy. Raised hundreds of years ago, and I haven't seen a reasonable answer yet.-dhw: I suggest: Because that's how things are.-DAVID: I think we have to accept that is the way it is supposed to be.-TONY (B_M): "Supposed to be" implies purpose. It also implies something to suppose that purpose. Maybe that's why no one wants to answer the question. If they answer it honestly, there is only one answer that can be arrived at.-Welcome back, Tony. If, as I suspect, you agree with David and are thinking of "God" as your answer, do you consider God to be nothing (= a total void)? If you don't, you still have the same problem: i.e. why is there God (something) rather than nothing? My honest suggestion ... though made, I must confess, with a smile on my face ... leaves the answer perfectly, agnostically neutral. Can you find fault with it?