ABSTRACT
This chapter believes that the possible-worlds theory of necessity is a philosophical disaster. It has probably produced more confusion than any other philosophical innovation occurring in the Anglo-Saxon philosophical world during this century. In order to understand the possible-world theory one must think of the world as just one among an infinite number of possible worlds, all differing from it by a larger or smaller amount. The possible-worlds version of the ontological argument is therefore invalid. It only seems valid partly because of a unfamiliar and misleading terminology, which produces confusion and feeds on the imagination in undesirable ways. The chapter considers the cosmological argument and the argument from design, and attempt, in the process, to strengthen the view that the existence of God should make no difference, one way or another, to the nature of the universe or of man.
