[longshadow]

How did it come to be that nature has the nature it has? How did it come to be that nature is logical in the way it is? How did it come to be that there are symmetries at all?

I don't really expect a scientific answer to these questions since they are not really scientific in nature.

I think you answered your own question, in that in effect you are asking "why are things as they are?"

Science deals with the question of "what" and "how"; philosophy deals with questions like "why?".

[BikerNYC]

Science deals with the question of "what" and "how"; philosophy deals with questions like "why?".

I'm asking a "how" question -- How did it come to be that things are the way they are? -- but realize that it may be beyond science to tackle this question at this time.