The problem raised by the article is one of necessesity and contingency. Why is there something? Why this? A necessary being and a contingent being demand very

The problem raised by the article is one of necessesity and contingency. Why is there something? Why this? A necessary being and a contingent being demand very different questions. That's why the article then goes into probabilities, which are the mark of contingency. The ancient and medieval philosophy/theology insisted on the lack of contingent attributes of God, whereas the Universe has all the attributes of contingency. As Heidegger said (in a quote I read somewhere), necessity can not be explained. That's where our mind will stop explaining things. The difference between a theist and an atheist is in their willingness to accept contingency as being necessary, or, to say that the electron is necessary the way it is and there's no other possible way for it to be this way. It exists necessarily like this and that's it. Or some other material entity that caused it, but the chain ends quickly and stops there.