Why bother studying wisdom, or how thinkers have tried to explain existence and other very anti-pragmatic puzzlements when you can better spend your time learning subjects that will get you a job?
Darwin first suggested the theory of sexual selection in order to solve a problem regarding his theory of natural selection (Darwin 1871); he found it difficult to explain existence of traits that reduced survival of its bearer.
Even if God is not concrete, proof of His existence would raise hope of explaining the existence of concrete things.
It is not that the necessary being is self-explanatory; rather, a demand for explaining its existence is inappropriate.
Cooperation is ubiquitous in nature, but explaining its existence remains a central interdisciplinary challenge [1 3].
Theorists figured out that explaining the existence of the J/psi required a new type of quark.
Focus is on explaining the existence of optimal design laws, laws that are frequently used in the engineering literature.
The problem for the pantheist, Mendelssohn submits, is explaining their existence, i.e., explaining what privileges some divine thoughts over others.
But unlike, say, Furby, their creators don't shy away from explaining their existence with somewhat real biology.
