The importance of the three building blocks is that they can be reached by reason. You may not agree with them, but you can make a rational case that they exist.
To try to go back further would be to go beyond reason, into that arational area that requires faith, not reason.
For the purposes of the "Poor Man's Philosophy", I do not try to to answer the questions of how, or why, the premises exist. I only make the case that a reasonable person can conclude they do exist.
Further, they exist at the point of convergence between faith and reason.
One can believe that they exist as the intent of a Creator. One can believe they came into existence as a part of the evolution of man. One can even believe they came into existence as a freak of nature...perhaps lightning struck an ape and re-wired it's brain.
My first goal has been to find this place where men of faith, where atheists, and agnostics, and doubters of all sorts can agree on a common starting point. To me, the three building blocks take us to the starting point.
From there, we use reasoning and logic to see where the road leads us, and if all can travel that road.
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