Is the universe, as Bertrand Russell once contends, "Just there"?  Or is it, as philosopher John Leslie suggested, a universe "worth knowing" more than one that is not worth knowing at all?  If we are honest, I think we would say that we like to believe both.  We are thankful the universe is "there" (for we live in it), and yet we are also thankful that it is a universe that is worth knowing, that there is a reason it's here.  If we had only the former, we might wonder what is the point of it all, but if we had only the latter, we might be puzzled as to how that which is worth knowing ever got to the point where it is something worth knowing.  For if we believe that existence and worth are nothing more than cosmic jokes, we look in vain for who is telling such jokes:  in a useless universe, we would be both.

     Sometimes we need what we can't explain to explain what we already think we can.  Otherwise, it's a very big box.