Why Something Rather Than Nothing?

[bennyboy]

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.

Hmmm let's talk about that. Assuming that God is good, as you insist must obviously be the case, and that God has designed the universe to be an expression of this essential goodness, then that must mean that out of all conceivable universes, THIS one is maximally good. This is the best that your God has been able to conceive:





At what point does reality infringe on your convoluted apologist acrobatics? I, for one, can't conceive of a universe in which any sensible, sentient being would look at Earth as it is, and think that the universe in which it exists is maximally good.