Everything and God

Ibn Sina’s “Proof of the Truthful”

Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Fruits and Vegetables. C. 1602 (Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Why is there something rather than nothing?

It’s a question that we all ask many times in our lives. It’s often said that philosophy begins in wonder, and the child is the greatest philosopher because the child isn’t too afraid to ask, “why?” The ultimate question is “why anything?”