As a result, existence, or - in other words - reality, does not need explanation as it is prior to as well as independent of anything. As it does not require any explanation, questions about when it began and who its creator was are ineffectual, let alone otiose. Consequently, when no explanation of existence is necessary, no question concerning existence itself can arise. "Existence is simple, irreducible, and foundational"(Full Context: Metaphysics: par 1). Existence provides the context for all other explanations, as it is the bedrock or the utterly basic.
In accordance with such views the Objectivist metaphysics also holds that God does not exist. Among all the attitudes towards the question of God's existence, the only one that is rationally defensible is atheism. Rand used to say that she was an "intransigent" atheist but "not a militant one" (par 2). What she meant by this distinction was that she did not find any reasons for believing in God. On the contrary, believing that man is somehow dependant on God is humiliating for a man as it does not depict a man as the highest being in the universe. For Rand, a single human being was to act by his rules and pursue his own happiness which was only possible when there was no God's intervention. That was the situation about which she could say that guaranteed full dimension of freedom. Never, however, did Rand attempt to prove wrong the theories concerning the existence of God such as for example Aquinas" five proofs or Anselm's ontological argument (Younkins, par 19). Some people think that if there is no God, then life has no meaning or that there is no reason for a person to be moral. Rand challenged this attitude, which can be seen on entering into the world of her fictional characters in such novels as We the Living, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
Rand rejects what was called by her the "mind - body dichotomy" because man, in her opinion, is a being of integrated body and soul.
