rather than nothing?’ We are going to have to explain why things actually are the way they are. Why, for example, do things always operate in causal sequences? Why, in accordance with the ‘law of karman’, do good deeds produce happiness and bad deeds produce suffering? In other words, if we are to appeal to final explanations then we shall need more than just a blind necessary being. We shall need a being that wills, a being that cares. A being, in being the source, the Creator, actively wills that