Why does anything exist?

Question

Why do the laws the universe / (or multi-verse) work they way they do? When I refer to "laws of the universe" I mean the way the universe actually works. I do not mean our understanding of how the universe actually works.

If you think that their is no reason for fundimental physical laws, then would there also be no reason for the fundimental laws of the universe to change? Why would they remain constant? or are they not constant? Isn't a law of the universe that the laws of the universe remain constant?

If you think that God created the universe and it's laws, there must have been laws outside of the universe that were used by God to create this universe and it's laws. Please apply the question to those laws outside of the universe.

If you think that God created himself, please provide scriptural backing.

Answer 1

So, am I to understand that one tiny molecule in say, our little finger could be a complete universe, and our universe may be but one tiny molecule in another being's little finger?

Wow, man....................

Answer 2

The simple answer is that we don't really know why anything is the way that it is.

All our scientific knowledge presupposes basic metaphysical propositions, such as reality as we experience it is real and not an illusion. Plus, you can't really use science to explain why science exists, "scientific laws say why science exists" simply begs the question (circular reasoning).

This is where philosophical metaphysics comes in. Why are scientific law the way that they are? Well, one answer is why not, they work for our universe.

The God answer has many problems philosophically and I could spend all day explaining why, but thats a matter for a different time. The short answer is that most real philosophers agree that the "God created everything" answer and its various incarnations is philosophically bankrupt. That is not to say that God couldn't exist, nor am I disparaging religion, but purely as a logical explanation it doesn't work.

getting back to the science part, even in our own universe there are situations where our ideas of how things work fall apart, such as in quantum mechanics and black-hole/singularity mechanics. We really don't know what actually happens in those areas yet.

It's not illogical to imagine a universe where everything is different, including physics, natural laws, even logic. So, really the only reason ours is the way it is is because it can be. there is not inherent meaning or purpose behind it., it simply exists because it can. (Unless you believe in religion, of course)

EDIT: re: cesster: True, one cannot prove that God doesn't exist, but that's because it is logically impossible to do so. You cannot prove the nonexistence of something, except by logical impossibility, for example circular squares cannot exist. I cannot prove there are no such things, but by their inherent qualities they cannot exist. The whole God issue's big problem is where did God come from? A reasoned answer doesn't lie in that he exists because he exists (circular reasoning). You have to somehow say where God came from.

It also violates Ockham's Razor, i.e. One should not resortto creating new entities to explain phenomena unless no other solution is viable. More colloquially stated as, "the simplist answer is usually the correct one."

Answer 3

There isn't a reason. There is no deeper meaning or purpose to the universe and how it operates. It is the 'why' that is the origin of all the confusion. There is no answer to this question. All proposed answers and solutions are completely speculative and come from the same knowledge that created the question. Thought is incapable of capturing the reality of the universe. It can only attempt to find pattern and statistical majority in the sensory experience. This is no different than children telling you where they came from.

You will never find the why and all your effort to do so will only cause more confusion and misery.

Answer 4

Here is a simple answer. Everything exists and is the way it is because it does or it chooses to and persists to existing and that it went down a series of events that make it cant be otherwise. Occam said the simplest answer is the best. I partly believe in this, but since we aren't ready to understand, we haven't evolved to that point yet, each person should best stick to the answer that we can best understand. I guess you would need a really big brain to answer your question completely. I just gave you something simple.

If your pantheistic(not many people believe in this i find, but i sorta do), then you would believe god is the universe or vice versa...perhaps once we reach the end of the evolutionary(the end of psychological, physiological) road, we can break way away from our physical shells and become omnipotent and all knowing ourselves. Become the universe in a sense. If you believe that we all have our own pathes to take, following a religion or set of instructions by spiritual guy isnt going to do you any good...

Answer 5

If nothing existed you wouldn't be here to ask the question. In another universe the laws might be different, but there would most likely be somebody there asking the same question. There is nothing special about our universe or it's laws except that it is the one you were created in by happenstance. Were it different the question would still be the same.

Answer 6

can you not accept that an almighty being has always existed? you have no proof that he doesnt exist. everything we find is because he's predicted it and given us a reason to deny his existence, after all, a science experience is faulty when the person interferes too much with his variables. my easy answer is that god made everything, but we re going to find a reason for all of that with science, when the universe ends, that guy called God will remake another universe- just for the fun of it

Answer 7

This one of those questions that has a very simple and hard 2 accept answer. And here it is, He just was, He was b4 time itself or anything else He was, and even long after time has passed He will still be. 2 tell u the truth u would hav 2 study parts of the Bible 2 realize this, and 2 realize that this truth is beyond human cognative thought of any king, which also proves that He is.

Answer 8

The meaning of life is 42.

Answer 9

look around you, what thing, other than God, could have created such a marvelous, amazing world? look at yourself... no one yet has managed to create such a being, they cant even replicate your own pinkie finger and all its functions! ps, im sorry this doenst even really answer your question.

Answer 10

Imaginations creations