had in mind when he said, ‘The world is simply there, and is inexplicable’,61 but while this kind of statement short-circuits the discussion, it does nothing to answer the question. In 1948 Fred Hoyle helped to popularize the so-called ‘steady-state’ theory, which maintained that the universe was infinite and eternal, and that as matter ‘dies’ through expansion it is replaced by other matter springing into existence. But, as philosopher William Lane Craig points out, the ‘steady-state’ model ‘has