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It is true they are full of errors, but my point still stands that the most obvious arguments would be documented first. In the case of prime mover/fi...

It tends to be that the most obvious arguments are the most convincing also and also are the first arguments to be documented chronologically. So we c...

I agree, that's why I've restricted my claims to a first cause. Trying to get from that to 'God' requires a definition of God, which is probably anoth...

With eternalism, the past is real in some sense. I wonder if the ghosts that are reported across many different cultures are somehow accessing the pas...

It was the only justification for a spirit world I could think of. I was approaching the problem from if you could justify the existence of one spirit...

Spacetime was apparently created in the Big Bang. What created it? Something not of spacetime. Could that something be non-material?

When you say 'can never be reached'? In what sense can we reach the end of time? Do you mean disconnected in spacetime somehow from us?

Again you come up with no counter arguments... that you have none I will have to assume.

What do you have in mind? Time as a linear sequence that supports causation would that change?

You always say my arguments have been proved false elsewhere but won't give a link to where. There must be a first cause: time stretching back forever...

Yes. Once it is recognised that the first cause has no cause, it becomes clear the only possible answer is 'no reason'.

Like I said, time is finite. We have evidence of only one Big Bang and strong reasons to suspect it is coincidental with the start of time. If there i...

We have not succumbed to infinite density because time has a start (see https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5302/an-argument-for-eternalism/p1)....

Periods of equilibrium or no, I don't see how the infinite density problem can be avoided.

I honestly am not in the habit of raising busted arguments.

I have. It is correct, in the presence of no evidence either way, to start at 50/50 for an estimate of an unknown boolean proposition with normally di...

Fantastic counter argument :(

You can think of induction as a two stage process: - Make an initial guess. 50/50 is appropriate for boolean propositions - Refine the guess in the li...

Please explain the flaws...

Well I have argument that builds on the 50/50 and concludes that there is a 91% chance that the universe is a creation: https://thephilosophyforum.com...

If you toss a coin 100 times, would you predict: - All heads - All tails - 50/50 It's the 3rd. The question 'was the universe created?' is of the same...

I think the question 'is there a God?' is not a 50/50 proposition. But the question 'was the universe created?' is a 50/50 proposition.

I'm not sure I follow, can you expand? I do not see how you can avoid infinite matter density with infinite time. I think we'd have evidence. With inf...

That sort of leads to a pet theory of mine: if big bangs were naturally occurring and time was infinite then there would be (with infinite time) infin...

So you doubt the Big Bang theory? The red shifts of galaxies seem to clearly show expansion starting 13 billion years ago. The Cosmic Microwave Backgr...

On the face of it, nothing can move relatively faster than the speed of light, so if galaxies are expanding faster than the speed of light; that sugge...

Anyhow infinity is unmeasurable so has no size so cannot expand.

If the size is: s0 at time 0 s1 at time 1 s2 at time 2 We have by the definition of expansion: s0 < s1 < s2 So s0 can't be infinite. There are not dif...

The definition of expansion precludes infinity from growing. Expansion means it is bigger now that it once was. So it can't have been infinite.

The answer is 'yes, probably'. Not 'I don't know' because we have just discussed inductive evidence in favour of the proposition.

- It is a step in the road towards a better overall understanding of the universe. Cosmologists have models that are infinite in space or time. If we ...

No: I think the answer is that there probably are aliens. Probability is how we judge the merit of inductive truth, how we differentiate between weak ...

We all have a set of assumptions or axioms about the real world we work to and that are mainly inductivity derived. Any inductive truth is prone to a ...

We would never know if there was sentient life in a nearby system - they are just too distant for us to be able to pick up artificial EMR. We have a s...

99.999% certainty of the finding. It's a sort of gold standard for empirical evidence. My point was at what threshold do you admit inductive evidence ...

I feel it is likely that there is life in nearby systems. 'The age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years; the earliest undisputed evidence of life ...

I am finding your don't know / can't know attitude to most questions a little defeatist. I think you should place more weight in inductive reasoning; ...

Most Cosmologists would probably disagree with me... because they are mostly atheist and the Strong Anthropic Principle seems a bit like one of the 10...

The laws of math should be invariant across all such universes. I am of the opinion if there are other universes, they will be like this one. They are...

You maybe referring to the difference between Potential and Actual Infinity? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_infinity Its possible to keep coun...

Even in our best instruments, large eco-planets appear as mere specks, so there is no way we are going to be able to detect life on them. Earth is the...

Are you suggesting a never-ending faberge egg style arrangement with an unending sequence of smaller and smaller sub-atomic particles? Or are you sugg...

I think it is the case that the statement 'there is no objective truth' is an abbreviation for one of the following: - 'There is no objective truth in...

There is a difference between what can exist in our minds and in reality. In our minds it is perfectly possible to construct illogical things that can...

A Koch snowflake always has a finite perimeter length, the process that produces them is an example of Potential Infinity. If a Koch snowflake existed...

It seems the photon moves at the speed of light from our perspective but from the photon's perspective, it is covering no distance in no time to get a...

My opinion is that the very conception of infinity is illogical. ?+1=? implies the existence of something that when it is changed, it does not change....

My view is that spacetime started with the Big Bang 13 billion years ago and is expanding into 'nothingness' - no time / no space. Nothingness itself ...

Well it is impossible for the universe to be infinite in size: - Size is a number - Infinity is not a number - So the universe is not infinite in size

How so? My argument works whether matter is created or not. Its a very simple argument: 1. There must be a first cause (see https://thephilosophyforum...