i still don't get it... "why is there anything at all, and not rather nothing?

I'd rather there not be anything than nothing be anything at all, but that's just me.

For an atheist that's really a good question. If there is no God then why is there anything. The universe is not something that must exist. It could just as easily not exist. If there is no God to create it then you really must question why it does exist. The big bang theory says that the universe had a beginning. But the law of cause and effect(which einstein said was the most reliable of all the physical laws) says that anything that has a beginning must have a cause. But if there is no God then there is no one there to cause the universe. Everywhere you look in the universe you see design. Common sense says that where there is design there must be a designer. Who could design a universe. You call him what you want. I call Him God. Only a God could design a universe. But if there is no God then there is no designer.

The universe obeys certain rules-----laws to which all things must adhere. These laws are precise and many of them are mathematical in nature. Natural laws are hierarchical in nature; secondary laws of nature are based upon primary laws of nature, which have to be just exactly right in order for our universe to be possible. There are constants(gravitational and cosmological and others) in our universe which must be exact within infinitesmal parameters in order for life to exist(that’s called the anthropic principle). But, where did these laws and constants come from and why do they exist? If the universe were merely the accidental by-product of a big bang, then why should it obey orderly principles----or any principles at all for that matter? The atheist cannot account for these laws of nature(even though he agrees that they must exist), for such laws are inconsistent with naturalism. Yet, they are perfectly consistent with the bible. We expect the universe to be organized in a logical, orderly fashion and to obey uniform laws because the universe has a creator God who is logical and has imposed order on His universe(Genesis 1:1).

I think it was Leibnitz who long ago asked the question "why is there something rather than nothing"? That's a question that, to this day, no atheist can answer.

http://www.ankerberg.com/

http://www.answersingenesis.org/

http://www.intouch.org/index_76034.html

http://www.icr.org/

http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/home.php

http://www.tektonics.org/

http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/_PDFArchives...

Julian from UK comic duo The Boosh once made the comment;

“The next time someone asks you, how’s life? just say to them.... I don’t know... I’ve got nothing to compare it with”.

This seems to be the situation you have found yourself in.

Why isn't there "nothing"?? Because "nothing" is a concept. Everything in life exists in pairs of opposites - objects and concepts exist in terms of two things: what they are, and what they are not. For example, life and death, light and dark, male and female, presence and absence. As soon as you say the word "nothing" you are mentioning a concept - and concepts are part of life.

So it's no so much that there can't be "NOTHING" in the world, rather than it is impossible for us to comprehend there being nothing, because the act of comprehending and labelling leaves us caught up in the world of something. Do you follow? Great question - I think about it all the time.

http://www.biblebelievers.com/the-reason-why.html

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Dr Wernher von Braun, director of NASA research, and developer of the rocket which put America's first space satellite into orbit, says,

"In our modern world, many people seem to feel that our rapid advances in the field of science render such things as religious belief untimely or old-fashioned. They wonder why we should be satisfied in 'believing' something when science tells us that we 'know' so many things. The simple answer to this contention is that we are confronted with many more mysteries of nature today than when the age of scientific enlightenment began. With every new answer unfolded, science had consistently discovered at least 3 new questions.

The answers indicate that everything as well-ordered and perfectly created as are our earth and universe must have a Maker, a Master Designer. Anything so orderly, so perfect, so precisely balanced, so majestic as this creation can only be the product of a Divine idea."

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Me either. And I have to say something here that is totally off topic.

I am sick to death of people pasting responses! I'm sick to death of muslims pasting reams and reams of the Koran! Can't anyone come up with an answer on their own? You Christians claim God gave us brains - why can't anyone USE them! Stop quoting your religious texts and use your brain to come up with an answer!

Sorry. I had to get that out.

If there was nothing, there would be nobody around to ask that question. So whenever you ask, there always has to be something or else the question could never be asked. Make sense?

Wow! I love that, maybe you should write country songs!

Yeah, Now i don't get it!

And where are my keys?

im with you man.