It’s a question that thinkers have wondered about for a long time. Argument IV against the eternity of the world: "Yes, Sir, The late Invention of Arts, and t

It’s a question that thinkers have wondered about for a long time. Argument IV against the eternity of the world: "Yes, Sir, The late Invention of Arts, and the Shortness of the History of the World, are invincible Arguments against its Eternity. If the World was from Eternity, you must needs make them an eternal Race of the most stupid Blockheads imaginable, without the least Drachm almost of Wit, or Contrivance, or indeed common Sense; and that none of these Qualification ever were known in the World, till within these two or three thousand Years last past." William Nichols, "A Conference with a Theist" (1696) https://archive.org/details/aconferencewith00nichgoog/page/44/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/aconferencewith00nichgoog/page/4...