Cause
Just why is there something as opposed to nothing? Have you ever thought about that? Take a walk outside. You’ll see and experience the world around you. Wind, sun, moon, stars, oceans, rivers, lakes, plants, trees, insects, birds, animals, people, all these have their beauty, and we can perceive them with our senses of touch, taste, smell, and sound. But how do we account for those things? Is what I perceive just an illusion? What if it is all a quest to discover “there is no spoon”? Why bother warning people to stop texting when they drive? Or better yet, stop daydreaming why they drive! Anyone would be wise to heed such warnings, and one never really takes solipsism to its logical extension. Suppose there is a universe of things out there beyond one’s own mind and perception. Why is it there? Some might have thought the universe had always existed, but our scientific enlightenment rules out that possibility. The “Big Bang” theory of cosmology contends that several b