Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, April 02, 2012, 15:11 (4596 days ago) @ David Turell

A summing-up from the agnostic's fence:-"Nothing will come of nothing." (King Lear) There has never been nothing. There has always been something in the form of energy. Theists believe that the energy has a mind, atheists believe it has no mind, and agnostics neither believe nor disbelieve either theory. Why has there always been energy rather than nothing? Because that's how things are (first cause).