People can certainly ask such a question but that isn't what you write. You claim that god is the unknown answer to the question that the universe by its existence poses. That is not the same as writing that people ask the question about why the universe exists. The universe by its existence poses no questions. Humans ask questions. It is however a nonsense question since there is no reason to believe a "why" exists. It is anthropomorphizing in the extreme to ask why the universe exists. It is at heart a childish question in that children cannot conceive of anything happening without human agency since they haven't yet grasped the concept of unthinking deterministic processes.
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> John Thornton wrote:
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>> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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>>> [God] 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.
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>> This is just meaningless. This is what passes for metaphysics and
>> sophisticated theology today. It can mean whatever the writer wishes it
>> to mean so it is irrefutable.
>> The universe does not by its existence pose any questions. Questions are
>> the product of human inquiry, human minds. Questions do not exist
>> divorced from human minds.
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