From a Necessary Being to a Perfect Being: A Reply to Byerly

Cosmological arguments for God typically have two stages. The first stage argues a cause or necessary being, and the second from there to God. T. Ryan Byerly offers simple, abductive argument where best explanation why being is found existence that it perfect being. reasoning behind this universal generalizations explain observations of their instances; example, generalization all ravens are black explains some particular raven observed be black. Similarly, fact has perfections we find existence. I distinguish between readings Byerly’s proposed theistic explanation, conclude his does not offer an advantage theist in either case.