The quote below from the famous mathematician and philosopher Leibniz is a version of the cosmological argument for the existence of *some* Absolute with an intrinsic impulse, will or need to manifest its potential as matter and motion (all we perceive and know). This argument is impossible to dismiss, at least logically. If one says that the whole idea of a sufficient cause is unnecessary because time-space emerged with the Big Bang only or it just always was and always will be, the question still remains of "Yeah, but then, why that? and why does something arise from a singularity in the first place?" The question has just been pushed off another step, which would be pushed off again and again with each additional wave of the hand. Call it what you like, but there *is* a "force" that is unknowable and unexplainable, even if we had an absolutely complete body of scientific knowledge. It must be sufficient in and of itself to generate all of the physical universe. It's some uncaused cause, some unconditional and absolute force of some kind. It is by definition beyond the physical (or beyond nature as we could ever possibly know it), but encompasses the laws behind energy and mechanics. It is super-physical, whether personal or impersonal. The cosmological argument for some super-physical, creative force simply cannot be dismissed...
— Gabriel Fenteany, January 14, 2016
"Why is there something rather than nothing? The sufficient reason [...] is found in a substance which [...] is a necessary being bearing the reason for its existence within itself."
– Gottfried Leibniz, The Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason, 1714
