1. Contingency Argument Why anything at all exists

2. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

3. God’s Starry Night

4. Premise 1 Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence – either in the necessity of its own nature, or in an external cause.

6. “Necessary” Things

7. External Cause

8. Premise 2 If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is an external, transcendent, personal cause - God.

9. Why? Because the cause of the universe must be greater than the universe itself.

10. Universe is… Matter Space Time

11. Premise 3 The universe exists.

12. Premise 4 Therefore, the explanation of the existence of the universe is an external, transcendent, personal cause – God.

13. Recap #1: Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence – either in the necessity of its own nature, or in an external cause. #2: If the universe has an explanation for its existence, that explanation is God. #3: The universe exists. #4: Therefore, the universe’s explanation for its existence is God.