Why Is There Something Instead Of Nothing?
Where there is, there essentially is something. To state "there is nothing" is to speak regarding something, particularly, of something that is, and this contradicts with the "nothing" we were supposedly speaking of. So you can't have nothing without having something, right?
You can rephrase it. However, it'll not change the core principle. For example: "Why does anything exist?" seems to be an absurdly trivial question once one reminds oneself something needs nothing to exist. Therefore nothing does not exist. So something does exist. Let's not prevaricate either.
Looking At It From A Different Perspective
I believe all the confusion is just due to a play on words with language that highlights a crucial truth. There are limitations to thought. These questions create a kind of absurdity, however, in so doing, demonstrate our intellectual limitations, which are deserving of thought. I think that sometimes we don't have the answers for everything and lots of people are naive of the world.
Many people see it as "nothing cannot exist." So something has to. However, that evades the question (it assumes existence). In any case, the real answer to the question is that, contrary to popular belief, nothingness is the utter lack of constraint - a realm of unbound potential in which the laws of logic merely do not apply. It's something that stands outside of our dualistic world.
The universe as we know it is a self-consistent, self-restrictive and self-actualising potential, timelessly emerges from this background of pure freedom unto itself. Thus, nothing cannot exist because "out of nothing everything comes". However, for logical reasons, just one potential will bring itself into existence, and that potential is when I think about the likelihood of God.
So the universe is actually self-contained, we can deduce that it behaves almost like a mind. When we try to answer the obvious question "whose mind", the solution appears to be the mind of God. Moreover, by "God", I mean an omnipotent, omniscience, omnipresent, omnibenevolent entity. Some may say people use God as the answer as we do not know enough about the planet; but, I don't think that's the case here.
