The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?

by Paul C.W. Davies

how can something come to exist that did not exist before?

“Although the whole of life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.”

If God has no need to create the world and is unaffected by it, why did God bother to do so?