"That answer may 'satisfy' some people, but IF the rule about sufficient cause is correct, then even a god must have a cause. In a pure absence of anything, why would there BE a god?"

I think we've been here before. pete, the brainwashed fundamentalist, wriggles out of that one by telling us that such a question is "meaningless". Slimy, dishonest, pious tosh, of course; it's the massive flaw in his flimsy edifice!