Why must everything have a creator? I do not agree with the premise that 'everything must have a creator'. If you keep my response to your previous question in perspective [1] , you shall see that it is not that we are fond of finding a creator and a designer for everything. On the contrary, we are interested in finding the artist, only when we see a piece of art; we are interested in searching for a writer, only when we read a letter; and we are interested in looking for an architect and the engineer, only when a building stares down at us. Obviously, our search for the writer, at being delivered an anonymous letter does not necessitate that the writer, in turn, should also be written by someone. Similarly, our search for the artist and the engineer or the architect, at seeing a piece of art or a building, does not, by itself, necessitate that the chain of searching for architects or engineers or artists would go on indefinitely. It is not that everything must have a creator; on the contrary, every created thing must have a creator. No reasonable person would start looking for the writer, at observing a building; or the architect at observing a piece of art. What we look for at observing something, depends on the properties, the features and the attributes of the thing observed. As I had clarified in my previous response, it is primarily the nature of what surrounds us and what lies within us, which initiates our search for a Wise Artist, a Magnificent Designer and a Providing Creator. Had the world that surrounds us or that which lies within us been devoid of all design, wisdom or providence, then, obviously, we would not have initiated this search, in the first place. The fact that the world which surrounds us and that which is within us entails a beautiful design, gracious providence and deep wisdom, coupled with the fact that neither ourselves nor the material world is capable of inculcating the design, the wisdom or the providence within itself, is what drives us to search for a creator, which exists independently. On the basis of the same reasoning, the question as to who created the Creator, deserves entertainment only if at observing the Creator, we find that He is also one of the created things. Till such time, the question is absolutely absurd and misplaced. March 15, 2001 [1] Reference is to my response titled: ' Existence of God '. Answer published by Moiz Amjad