Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Sylvia: How would you approach the three mysteries we set out at the beginning? Richard: I started thinking about these questions because I found it really puzzling to put it mildly, perhaps even a little bit annoying that the topic of God and religious belief has almost entirely vanished from most graduate syllabuses. My goal is to bring these questions, the big metaphysical questions about why there is something rather than nothing back onto the philosophical center stage, as it were. We may expect many more answers from the natural sciences about things that right now seem mysterious.

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