What can be explained can also be predicted, if one knows the initial events and the laws covering their succession.
— James Carse
Leibniz's reasoning: 1. Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence. 2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God. 3. The universe exists.
— William Lane Craig
That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.