Why is there something rather than nothing? (All Roads Lead to Russell)

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References:

1) Bertrand Russell vs. Frederick Copleston, 1948 BBC debate (transcript): www.scandalon.co.uk/philosophy/cosmological_radio.htm

2) Why is There "Something" Rather than "Nothing"? | Episode 306 | Closer To Truth https://youtu.be/cfmewf2DoKU

3) Why Anything At All II? | Episode 1907 | Closer To Truth: https://youtu.be/jfrZqktvxQU

4) Why God, Not Nothing? | Episode 1311 | Closer To Truth: https://youtu.be/hNmfdiSD5qI

5) Why Anything at All? | Episode 1213 | Closer To Truth: https://youtu.be/tgU49k1d7TE

6) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, 2021 | Sean Carroll: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Routledge-Companion-Philosophy-Physics-Companions/dp/1138653071

7) Episode 9: Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing? | Sean Carroll: https://youtu.be/FLfvvMjuk6U

8) Lawrence Krauss: Atheism and the Spirit of Science | The Agenda with Steve Paikin: https://youtu.be/MawwCJ5q-2Y

9) Cosmological Argument | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmological-argument/

10) Principle of Sufficient Reason | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sufficient-reason/

11) Simon Blackburn - Why Not Nothing? | Closer to Truth: https://youtu.be/kXaiu8rYRSU

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Timestamps:

00:00 The Ultimate Question?
02:02 Closer to Truth
07:06 Non-Answers
11:46 Necessary Being
19:36 Brute Fact

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