Why Something Rather Than Nothing?

[datc]

The failure of this argument is obvious. You are insisting that the current universe is somehow meant to be, but that is an unwarranted assumption.

We exist as a result of this universe's existence. If it weren't this universe, we wouldn't be. So what? What makes you believe that we are meant to be?

I am not assuming that it is meant to be. I am saying that the highly peculiar essence of our universe, U, could not have been randomly generated.

Some actual cause determined the form of the universe. It could have been a physical cause C1 that had to, deterministically, result in U. But C1 would presumably, too, have an interesting essence, and the question would arise again.

Far more sensible is to argue that there was an intelligence creating U for a purpose, such as (for example) the best possible world, presumably a singular thing.