Arguments for God's Existence from Contingency

[Neo-Scholastic]

So basically, your argument boils down to demonstrating that the universe is contingent.

I don't see the problem since that is basically what the demonstration is all about. The alternative is to consider the existence of the physical universe a brute fact, but even that does not explain how it continues to exist and change. It also does not explain the principles governing and limiting how it changes nor the nature of those principles. Again the alternative is take these principles as brute facts also.

The question in my mind is how far down into the fundamental nature of reality can people go before reaching an absolute limit? I think atheisticly minded philosophers stop short. I don't take either the physical universe or the laws by which it is governed as brute facts. At the very least, it sure seems that things could have been otherwise and that alone gives warrant to speculating on why it isn't, i.e. not accepting either as brute facts.