1: there is no argument (descartes/augustine) 2: argument number 1 is wrong (hume/berkeley) 3: argument number 1 and argument number 2 are irrelevant (locke/hobbes) 4: stasis (vico/newton) 5: entropy (bruno/newton) 6: organic (kant/newton) 7: inevitable (hegel/einstein) 8: st thomas aquinas (all the way to heaven)