It demands cirlular reasoning and its premise is fallacious as it is dependent on the assumption that god exist without evidence. If god can not be proven to exist it can not work. Again with all apologetics, the fact that the argument exist is the problem. No one should have to justify anything for an obviously existent all powerful god. Apologetics only exist for gods that can not be proven to exist.

I had not heard of it before. Leibniz, great mathematician though he was, was clearly not using his brain.

Yes, it’s deductive and it makes sense from the point of reasoning.

It also opens the door to infinite regress as the created continually needs a creator, unless there is no created being, which can also be deduced by the evidence, and everything is a continual cyclic existence.

The linear nature of time is an invention of soteriological ideologies looking to justify their religious position.