"C. G. Estabrook" wrote:
>
> Good, because theism is a metaphysical (that is to say philosophic)
> conclusion. It is the unknown answer to the question that the universe
> by its existence poses. To say that God is the reason/cause that the
> universe exists is to say nothing about how the universe exists, which
> science investigates.
>
I'm playing around a bit here.
Suppose that we accept the answer to Why Something? as God (the Creator).
What kind of status does the following question have?
Does God create by a free act of will, or does God create by necessity?
The latter answer of course 'takes care' of the 'problem of evil."
Carrol