Why? part I- anything, anything at all

Why does anything exist?
The answer to this question is so foundational to the thoughts of man, that it colors everything else he thinks afterwards.

The question of "Being" takes us into very different views of the world, and shapes all of man's philosophic thought- that is: man's world-view of what is- metaphysics.

First we must realize that the existence of man is of no greater problem than the fact that anything exists- at all.
We cannot sidestep the fact that things do exist, and that they do exist in their present form and complexity. This problem we face... is the existence of what is- of Being.

Jean Paul Sartre may have said it best: The basic philosophical question is that something is there... rather than nothing being there.

All philosophies and religions deal with the same basic questions, even though they might give different answers and most likely those answers will be couched in different terms.

When I mention philosophy, it tends to make some people zone out. So, before anyone starts nodding off, allow me to briefly explain that philosophy has two meanings.

The first one is a disciplined, academic, and highly technical study. There're not many people on that planet.

The second is: a person’s world-view. That is universal in scope; everybody has a world-view. Eveyone has their own perspective on the world and tries to conform accordingly. No one can live without a world-view. So, no one is without- a philosophy. So, in that sense, all of us are philosophers.

Because both philosophy and religion deal with the same questions through their system of beliefs that are held to with ardor and faith, in that sense, we can also say- all of us are religious.

So, what philosophy can answer for what exists?
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There’re only two kinds of answers to the metaphysical problem of Being. There’s no lack of variety within those two, but there are really only two kinds.

One answer says that there is no logical, rational answer for anything. That everything is meaningless. That nothing answers for anything, there’s no cause and effect relationship.

While the second answer says that there is a rational answer to consider. It is one we can communicate with each other about and to ourselves.

I shall only deal with the second answer for reasons I hope are so obvious it shouldn't really be necessary to explain. Should there be any questions about this. I'd be glad to address it further, if need be. Until then...
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Under the concept of rational thought, there are only three possible rational answers to consider.

The first possible rational answer says: everything has come out of absolutely nothing. Theoretically, this is the first possible answer, even though no argument has ever been able to sustain it.

The second possible answer is that all that now is, came from an impersonal mass, or energy, or motion, plus time and chance.

There are no other factors to consider. And within this impersonal beginning answer, there is no form of any teleological concept. ( Ref.: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teleology )

The great problem of beginning everything with the impersonal, is to find any meaning or purpose for any thing in particular, any individual factor. That is, any separate and individual part of the whole. A rock is a particular thing, and so is a man.

While an impersonal beginning can provide some answer for form, it can’t answer for things like freedom and morality. 

Naturalistic science begins everything with the impersonal, with energy particles (or whether mass or motion, would make no difference)... plus time... plus chance. All are equally impersonal. As a result, they have no true answers for existence with its complexity, nor for the personality and aspirations of man.

The third possible answer is: a personal beginning. If we begin with the personal, then the personal does have meaning. And the personality and aspirations of man, and freedom, and morality, are not meaningless. The personal beginning puts man in line with the universe. With what was originally there, and what has always intrinsically been. This relationship is what is commonly known in the sciences as the laws of Cause and Effect.

At this point, it is the Christian who has the needed answer.

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With this, we have exhausted all of the possible basic metaphysical answers we need for existence, of Being. That doesn’t preclude the details, variations or subheadings, but there are only three basic answers with which to consider under the term: rational.