If substance dualism is true, then minds are immaterial concrete individuals or stuffs. Now no concrete individual or stuff can be created without being created from temporally or ontologically prior things or stuff(s). But classical theism entails that if there are any created minds, then at least one such mind was created without being created from temporally or ontologically prior individuals or stuffs. Therefore, if substance dualism is true, then classical theism is false.
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Two Naturalistic Arguments for Why There is Something (Concrete) Rather Than Nothing (Concrete)
Here is a sketch of two arguments for why there is anything (concrete) rather than nothing (concrete), which are based on, or at least inspi...