Devans99

The number of events is in an infinite regress is an integer so it can't be greater than any integer.

Whats wrong with that statement?

But each part of the universe is an arrangement of atoms. Are you saying it is impossible for two parts of the universe to have the same arrangement o...

Your point is not coming across. What I do is perfectly logical. If an object has no start then it does not exist. Try to imagine a 3D object with no ...

Can you expand?

So Cantor proved the universe was homogeneous?

I do not 'assume an infinite regress has no start' - if it had a start it would not be infinite.

But the universe is random; it is not in perfect order like '1010101010', its random like '100011100101110'. So go on long enough, any bit sequence is...

I think a bit of respect for other people's viewpoints is in order. Finitism is a perfectly respectable standpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fini...

It has not been answered. We only know of one way of existence. Are other forms of existence possible? It is hard to conceive of other forms of existe...

It is impossible to have a creation without a creator. Always existing is impossible, see: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5242/infinite-bei...

Well I started from the axiom 'can't get something from nothing' and deduced you can't create yourself. Its a good axiom IMO. Or to create yourself, y...

Thats why I thought updating it for the 21st century would be appropriate. Thats why I added an additional 5 arguments to justify the existence of a f...

In what way is it not an argument?

It respects the conservation of energy. It does not produce matter. Its all transitory.

I adopt the axiom: can't get something from nothing. Then if there is nothing, we cannot have something. So to create one's self from nothing is impos...

Where exactly does he 'assumes' a first mover exists in his proof mean? He is a little confused maybe. But the solution is to make the first cause tim...

Well it was posted ages ago and no-one has come up with a valid counter argument yet. Please tell me how something can start by itself?

Time has a start proof is here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5302/an-argument-for-eternalism/p1

Time had a start. Things just don't start themselves (just like it is impossible to create one's self). If cause and effect holds then there must be a...

Please tell me where cause and effect does not hold? My reasoning against an infinite regress is that it has no starting cause, so that the 2nd cause ...

I think the start if time requires a first cause; I don't see time starting by itself.

The point is that your Homer example demonstrates that space is discrete. So it is a valid argument that leads to the valid conclusion: that space is ...

If you look back at: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5577/was-there-a-first-cause-reviewing-the-five-ways/p1 You will see that arguments B, ...

What do you have to back up this bald assertion? So homer cannot walk to the end of the path so by your logic the universe has a first cause? No it do...

I believe Zeno's paradoxes go away if you assume spacetime is discrete. So Zeno's paradoxes are actually proof via contradiction that spacetime is dis...

It's not a big assumption. We have a timeless, powerful, intelligent first cause. Calling it God is more of a definition than an assumption IMO.

Of course not, but Zeno's arguments highlight the nonsensical nature of the continuum - that is the purpose of the arguments - not to prove an arrow i...

I go through the logical deduction of a first cause here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5577/was-there-a-first-cause-reviewing-the-five-wa...

Zeno's arguments have some merit; else we would not still reference them.

I was asking you to describe the faults in my arguments. I don't see what purpose a discussion of Zeno's arguments serves at this point.

God is the creator of the universe; that is my definition. On the subject of God's sex, God is not the product of bisexual reproduction, so has no sex...

Describe the bad logic please.

God is timeless so he is beyond cause and effect. The only way out of the infinite regress of time stretching back forever is to have a timeless first...

I don't find either paradoxical; the universe is discrete, so not very good examples. A logical argument can lead to something at odds with common sen...

I think it works as he says from a probability perspective. If there is a non-zero probability of an event, then with infinite time, that event must o...

I don't understand how you can doubt there is a first cause, all the evidence is presented here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5577/was-th...

This is one of the reasons the universe is not infinite; the consequences are too bizarre. It also leads to the measure paradox - everything happens a...

As usual nothing substantive to say :(

The foundation for the claim God exists is here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5577/was-there-a-first-cause-reviewing-the-five-ways/p1 If ...

The Big Bang appears deliberate. How could anything set of the Big Bang yet still survive? Now if it was non-material… maybe it could…

No, all people do is say 'that argument was dismissed elsewhere' but they won't say where. It is very frustrating that people are not even engaging wi...

A lot of words but not even a single counter argument :(

I do not dismiss them; I read each one, think about it and post a valid counter-counter argument. Or is someone comes up with a valid counter argument...

Could you identify the 'prerequisite assumption'? It seems simple to me, the universe can't have existed forever (it would have no start so none of it...

I think that is hypocritical.

Well go ahead and either raise a counter argument or provide a link to a counter argument that I have not addressed.

That's just BS. I have addressed all your counter arguments.

Exactly. I can show time has a start (see https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5302/an-argument-for-eternalism/p1). So space does not exist 'befo...

Spacetime was created 14 billion years ago. By something not of spacetime. Space can't exist without time so that something was spaceless as well as t...