Larry Sanger

There is any necessary being.

It has to be outside of the universe, as we know it, at least.

We might not know anything about it, but that's actually an important part of my book.

It's like I don't conclude, and therefore God exists.

I simply say...

A necessary being exists probably outside of the universe because I don't think this is a deductively sound argument.

It's an inductive argument.

All right.

So...

A necessary being must exist outside of space and time that explain space and time and the laws and the constants and all of this.

That's the contingency argument.

And we can't go no farther than that particular conclusion.

Well, that's the rest of the arguments, essentially.

Well, I actually make separate arguments.

It's very similar, but it's distinguishable in an argument from causality and also a design argument.

And they work together, but at some point you actually have to say, well, this being must be the same as being posited in the contingency argument.

But there are actually good reasons to think that.

I've got a whole chapter about that.

It's very complicated, actually, to deal with it.

So I say that there are three horrible things in the world.