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    Challenges→Creation ex nihilo is impossible

    If no prior material substrate is logically available at the absolute origin of the universe, then creation ex nihilo is not merely possible but metaphysically necessary to avoid an infinite regress.

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    Creation ex nihilo(Presented as the root of the Torah in Falaquera's popular works)
    The view that God brought all created beings into existence from nothing, and that the world is produced and not eternal
    Metaphysically necessary(as used in modal metaphysics)
    Something that must be true in all possible ways the world could be; it's not just true in our world but couldn't possibly be false in any imaginable scenario.
    absolute origin(as used in cosmology)
    The very beginning of everything—the starting point before which nothing else existed.
    infinite regress(modes of argumentation available to a dogmatist)
    An argument structure in which grounds are offered for a claim P, then grounds for those grounds, and so on indefinitely without ever repeating a proposition
    logically available

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    (as used in logic and metaphysics)
    Something that is possible according to the rules of logic; it doesn't lead to a contradiction or impossibility.
    material substrate(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
    The physical stuff or base that something is made of or depends on; the tangible foundation that supports something's existence or properties.

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