Oh, that A. M. Monius thing again.<p>"Does reality have a purpose? Why are things intelligible at all?" Those questions run into the usual problem when looking for a First Cause:<p>"God created the world."<p>"Then who created God?"<p>"Shut up, kid."<p>Some philosophers get into this mess by starting from the assumption that there must be something more than the physical universe, so that it somehow "makes sense". With that bias, you get things like this paper. Plus a big chunk of theology.