Abstract
Might our cosmos have sprung into existence, for no reason whatever, in a Big Bang occurring some few thousand million years ago? Or might it have existed always, again for no reason? That anything could simply happen to exist is often considered preposterous. On this basis we may be urged to accept the reality of God. God, some maintain, can somehow resist the force of the child's question, 'Well, what created him?', so that any need to explain existence is not the kind of 'cab conveniently dismissed when we reach a pious destination' on which Schopenhauer threw scorn. My paper will consider, first, whether there is any prima facie case for supposing that existence as a whole stands in need of explanation, and second, what possibilities of explanation a short search reveals. May a little searching persuade us that the question which we are trying to answer is misconceived?
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