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Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do certain things exist? Why are things the way they are? This question, “Why not nothing?” asks if it is possible to think of a world where nothing exists. This question is significant because it brings up the idea of conceiving other possible worlds. It gives one the ability of imaging worlds in a different way. Could one picture a world without water bottles? Is it possible for triangles to have more than one-hundred eighty degrees? This question enables us to think of all different possibilities without assumptions, so why not nothing?
Godly necessitarianism says there is not nothing because God is a necessary being. If something is necessary it exists in all possible worlds. Since God is necessary, no contingent things exist. Contingent things are things that could be otherwise or could be imagined differently. For instance, one could imagine a world without chili cheese dogs, with two suns, or without triangles. One could picture in their mind a world differently. However, godly necessitarians believe that another world, such as world W, could never exist because God is a necessary being and everything he created is necessary. There could never be nothing because God is necessary. God is all loving, all powerful, and all knowing. Therefore, everything in the world has a purpose. Another world could never be imagined because God has created everything perfectly the way it is meant to be. Everything that exists or happens is through God. Godly necessitarianism puts up the argument if God is necessary then there are no other possible worlds. God is necessary. Therefore, there are no other possible worlds (class notes, 1/23/13).
An object to godly necessitarianism could concern the idea of vanishing possibilities (ROE,92). Vanishing possibilities mean that if God is necessary and perfectly good, then many worlds are impossible and only the perfect world exists. This is false because our world does contain
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