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    It is not the case that God does not exist.

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    • 1.The argument's P2 illicitly assumes God is not contingent without justification, begging the question against open theism and classical theism alike.
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    • 2.If necessary existence is coherent (as Plantinga argues via possible worlds semantics), then P1's possibility claim entails God's necessity, not impossibility.
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    • 3.Modal logic (S5) dictates that if it is possible that a necessary being exists, then that being exists in all possible worlds, inverting the argument's conclusion.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The cosmological argument (Leibniz, Aquinas) establishes that contingent existence requires a sufficient reason, which terminates in a necessary being identifiable with God.
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    • 2.The existence of finely tuned physical constants (the teleological argument, cf. Swinburne's 'The Existence of God') renders God's existence more probable than the denial thereof.
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    • 3.Anselm's ontological insight, rehabilitated by Plantinga, shows that denying God's existence entails denying the coherence of maximal greatness, which is itself conceivable.
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    • 1.It is possible that God does not exist.
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    • 2.God is not a contingent being, i.e., either it is not possible that God exists, or it is necessary that God exists.
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    • 3.Hence it is not possible that God exists.
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