Why is there something rather than nothing? is a question that cannot be answered in the way we might answer the question, "Why do birds migrate to the same place every winter?" or "Why is there more crime in the United States than in Japan?"
Why is there something rather than nothing? is a question whereby the ‘why’ is not a search for a cause, but an act of celebration. When we ask the question, we celebrate the fact that anything exists at all; we pause to notice this amazing fact.
Why is there something rather than nothing? is a question whereby, once we recognize it’s not a question to be answered, but an occasion to wonder, we are given further to wonder about this extraordinary thing that it is ‘to be’.