
Originally Posted by
Monkey.Man
We will likely never know this. We can do one of two things: accept this as a necessary truth of the universe, such as 2+2 = 4.
Or invent some story that has a creator who had the intelligence, inclination, and physical capability to "set" all these rules in place prior to their existence.
But this does not bring us any closer to answering the question, it in fact pushes us farther away from answering the question as we then need to explain who created the creator, and who gave him the immense capabilities to actually do all of this, and then who created the creator's creator and what happened to him now? Where does he live? how was he able to make such fundamental changes?
It brings up a million questions that are unanswerable and I think most people would rather settle for one or two simple necessary truths than several million overly complex interdependent truths that could just as easily be ditched and explained just as well by a different but similar "idea".