We must therefore now ask, is the question ‘Why anything?’ legitimate? Is it, as some say, less a legitimate question than a question-begging question, a philosophically disguised version of the ‘wife-beating’ question? For it would seem that those who wish to deny the legitimacy of the question do so because they too assume, as I do, that if you may legitimately ask it, then it has to have an answer. If it has an answer, then the name of the answer would have to be ‘God’, for the answer would bear the name of the ‘Creator’ of all things, visible and invisible, ‘out of nothing’. Of course, I should say that if‘God’ is the name of the answer, then, though the question is intelligible to us, the answer could not be – but the atheistic opponent would say that it is just because the answer could not be intelligible to us that the question lacks sense. To which I would respond: if the question makes sense then the sense it makes requires that the answer must lie beyond our comprehension. But that does not settle the matter, for the atheist will still demand to know why it is a question which I am compelled to ask, and so am constrained thus to answer. Even more, why should I be required to concede that the question makes sense at all?