Q&A: Nothing Is Necessary, the Watchmaker Argument
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Nothing Is Necessary, the Watchmaker Argument
Question
Hello, in the debate you said that nothing is necessary except for the principle that nothing is necessary. How do you know that the principle that nothing is necessary must itself be true?
Is the watchmaker argument a good enough argument to prove the existence of some kind of god, or does it have logical flaws?
Answer
That was a joke.
The watchmaker argument is excellent, but that is only an initial formulation. In my third talk on the First Cause, I explained it in more detail.