[Senator Pardek]

Dude, thanks for responding - after posting, I'd assumed you would think I was baiting you.

...I believe in a God great enough to create the universe so that it is exactly perfect for His unknowable purpose.

Why do you believe that? I've read enough books for laymen (and your posts) that claim quantum physics and "initial conditions" can create existence.

Again - I'm not trying to contradict you, nor am I asking rhetorical questions in the form of statements.

Here's my real question - why are there conditions and/or Physics? There should be nothing - and I'm asking as a non-believer.

[Physicist]

Well, now you're asking Wittgenstein's "fundamental question of philosophy": why is there something, and not just nothing? I simply don't know. I think Rand had the right approach when she made "Existence exists" and axiom, and had done with it.