"If God created the universe, then the universe exists because God created it. But God is not nothing; God, too--whether God is a thing or not--is something. So the old religious answer merely pushes the question of why there is something rather than nothing one step further back. It does not answer the question. For now we must ask: Why God rather than nothing?" Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin, Wisdom Without Answers, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998), p. 68-69