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I seriously don't understand how anyone could look at the universe, the makeup of the body, even the structure of a flower and believe it all just "happened". These things just are too complex to have formed out of nothing.

I find that those who believe that such things "formed out of nothing" or no more or less credible that those who have no explanation for a being who created such things.

In other words, to ask "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is equivalent to asking "Why is there God rather than no God?"

Interposing God does nothing to explain the mystery of existence. It just pushes the discussion back a half step to question why there is a God at all.

It just pushes the discussion back a half step to question why there is a God at all.

Step back even further -- why is there "an existence" at all? It's a somewhat moot question, given that there is "an existence."

But just try answer the question "why is there existence?" You'll find yourself stumbling over all manner of mind-bending issues -- such as "how did existence get there at all?" One thing seems clear: "existence" is independent of time -- it's literally eternal (I confess I do not understand the full implications of eternity). Perhaps there is no satisfactory answer to "why" there is "an existence."

The question of "why" there might be a God is along the same lines. If there is a God, then He would share, in some sense, the properties of "eternal existence," in which case the question of "why" He exists at all seems rather moot.