"Copleston replied, 'Why something rather than nothing, that is the question.'"

"As we have seen, this last question is epistemologically absurd. If one drops the context of existence, one abandons the possibility of explanation. The question 'Why?" demands a causal explanation, and the concept of causality presupposes something that acts as causal agent." (emphasis added)

--George H. Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God