Why does anything exist instead of nothing?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Leibniz thought that the fact that there is something and not nothing requires an explanation. The explanation he gave was that God wanted to create a universe – the best one possible – which makes God the simple reason that there is something rather than nothing.

What is anything at all?

(Ask me) anything at all!: (Ask me) whatever you like! idiom. (He doesn’t like) anything at all!: (He likes) absolutely nothing! idiom.

What is the reason of our existence?

The main purpose of our existence is to live with peace and to serve God ,learn,work and help peoples while need to help.

How do you explain why something exists?

“To explain why something exists, we standardly appeal to the existence of something else… For instance, if we answer ‘There is something because the Universal Designer wanted there to be something’, then our explanation takes for granted the existence of the Universal Designer.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Some philosophers conclude ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ is unanswerable. They think the question stumps us by imposing an impossible explanatory demand, namely, ‘Deduce the existence of something without using any existential premises’.

What would happen if there was nothing?

If nothing existed, there would be nothing to explain. That anything exists demands some kind of explanation. Of all the big questions, this is the biggest. Why anything? Why not nothing? What can we learn from the absence of nothing? Why is there a world, a cosmos, something, anything instead of absolutely nothing at all?

What is the sufficient reason for the existence of something?

The sufficient reason […] is found in a substance which […] is a necessary being bearing the reason for its existence within itself. Philosopher of physics Dean Rickles has argued that numbers and mathematics (or their underlying laws) may necessarily exist.