Nothing

A rather hilariously outspoken but on balance entirely correct demolishment of another village-atheist attempt to account for everything -- in this case, everything including nothing -- in "rigorous" sceintific terms, thus eliminating a creator or Creator.  The author is David Albert, and he certainly doesn't write like the philosophy professor he is, and the review makes me want to read his book.  I once asserted that there was one basic philosophical question -- why is there anything and not just nothing?  and one basic scientific question -- why is everything the way it is and not some different way instead?  Quantum-field theory is a fine new answer to the second,  The first can have no answer.  ("God" is simply a name for the answer.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe-from-nothing-by-lawrence-m-krauss.html?src=recg