The argument wrongly assumes that inability to produce without a substrate entails total causal impotence, but a being can be the highest causal principle within a necessarily co-eternal material order, as Aristotle's unmoved mover suggests.

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Aristotle: Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who lived over 2,000 years ago and is one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He studied nearly every subject—from animals and plants to politics and ethics—and developed practical ways of thinking that shaped how people understand the world. His ideas on logic, nature, and how to live a good life are still taught and debated today because he focused on observing the real world rather than just abstract theories.
Causal Principle(Used as a foundational premise in deductive cosmological arguments for the existence of God): The general metaphysical principle that every event or contingent thing has a cause, which underlies the deductive cosmological argument
Causal impotence(as used in metaphysics): The inability to cause or make anything happen; being completely powerless to affect the world.
Necessarily co-eternal(as used in metaphysics): Existing together forever as an unavoidable fact—neither one can exist without the other, and both have always existed.

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