The Viral Circularity of Absolute Creationism

"There is no vicious circularity because the dependence relations are different," he says. The priority at issue in the bootstrapping objection is a sort of causal priority, which Menzel recognizes to be asymmetric. "The problem with absolute creationism is that causally prior to God's creating properties, the causal prerequisites for His creating properties are missing so that He cannot create them."