Devans99

Fair point. Another issue with his argument: Science is somewhat down on causality of late what with quantum mechanics and all so the cause and effect...

He could possibly mean that things inside time are subject to change but things outside time (IE God) are not. In the eternalist view, past present fu...

If we take the eternalist view (which I believe Aquinas held), God is a static unchanging object outside of time. He has interacted with the universe ...

By his works shall we know him. Some of my deductions do use the fact that God, if he exists, created the universe, but I'd argue that is derived from...

Thats the point; it's nothing. What is your definition? You are waffling rather than addressing my arguments. You have made 5 posts on this subject so...

... 5. Easily bored. Created universe to amuse himself. 6. Not a micro manager. Does not get involved in day to day running of universe. 7. Likes to d...

God is sexless, timeless, benevolent and powerful: 1. Sexless: Not the product of bisexual reproduction so sexless. 2. Timeless: An eternal in time (p...

Well there are problems with the prime mover argument: - In the quantum era, cause and effect are under question. The prime mover argument relies heav...

I don't think Eternal Inflation is incompatible with belief in God. It's just the sort of mechanism that a God would employ to create a universe. Plus...

Inflation does explain some of the observed features of our universe: 'Many physicists also believe that inflation explains why the universe appears t...

OK how about a region of space absent of any matter/energy? It's a fair point, there maybe a whole universe of timeless things for all we know. But I ...

But if you have a start of time and timelessness then cause and effect does not apply to timeless entities. So you can have an uncaused cause as God o...

Could you please explain what parts of my argument you object to and why.

But there is a third option, the universe began causally. If the other two options are impossible, it must be the third option that is true? If someth...

Well if no-one can explain them and they are counterintuitive, then we can just rule them out? They are both impossible after all. Universes don't jus...

God could exist timelessly. He could cause the start of time and the universe. Can you explain how exactly the universe can begin truly acausally? (no...

I agree but my argument is directed towards current cosmological thinking where the origin of the universe is almost invariably attributed to quantum ...

Nothing is spacetime absent of any matter/energy (except quantum fluctuations).

If only A can decay to B or C and it decays to B, then it would be unnatural for C to occur. An unnatural agency like God could cause C to occur thoug...

OK but then they are unnatural events for the time periods for which there is zero probability of occurring. We are talking Big Bangs which are theori...

Sorry I meant 50% probability.

C and B both start with a 50% (correction) probability so they are both natural. Anyhow, thats a classical universe; I'm thinking of a quantum univers...

A zero probability event is by definition unnatural; caused by some unnatural agency. A non-zero probability event is by definition natural, for examp...

Lack of evidence is pretty conclusive evidence that the Big Bang is not a natural occurrence. It only happened 14 billion years ago so if Big Bangs ar...

Astronomy gives evidence in support of one unnatural, Big Bang. If there had been multiple Big Bangs, I think Astronomer's would have noticed somethin...

OK photons experience no time but all lengths are contracted to zero so I guess you can argue they experience no movement. I still maintain that photo...

I know the feeling.

And to the cause of the Big Bang. Natural would be quantum fluctuations or such. Non-natural would be God.

What I say implies infinite natural Big Bangs (with infinite time). We can tell from astronomy that there is only one Big Bang so empirical evidence i...

No, but all we need to be able to deduce that infinite Big Bangs occurred is to assign a non-zero probability of a Big Bang occurring in a tiny fracti...

You have me confused; you will have to make that question more specific.

- If an event is non-natural in a time period, then it has a 0% chance of occurring in that time period. - If an event is natural in a time period, th...

We have to say that the qualifier 'natural' applies to certain time periods. For an event to be natural within a time period; it has to have a non-zer...

Yes. In two dimensions: If the y axis is time and the x axis is space, then movement along the x axis represents movement at the speed of light wholly...

If Big Bangs occurs naturally, then there is always a non-zero probability of a Big Bang in any finite time period. If we extend that over the life ti...

If the big bang was a natural event, it would have a non zero probability of occurring over any finite period. That means it occurs infinite times ove...

Assuming you mean the Big Bang was a naturally occurring event, can you justify your above statement in any way?

Given infinite time and that the Big Bang big is a naturally occurring event, then there must be an infinite number of Big Bangs. Say Big Bangs are ca...

As far as I understand it, relativity says we are always travelling through spacetime at the speed of light but there is a time and space component. F...

Any given event has a probability of happening over any fixed time period. If it's a 'natural' event then that probability is non-zero. With infinite ...

Space time is 4 dimensional. I can imagine God in a separate 4D world in which each point has a one-to-many relationship with our spacetime points. So...

Not sure I follow. I would have thought a timeless god would not feature in time at all. He would be external to time, viewing all of time in one go b...

The photon changes (position) and yet it experiences no time. That suggests time and change are independent. Change is possible without time. Cause an...

I think thats debatable; cause and effect are enabled by time; that does not mean there could be something else time-like that also enables cause and ...

Its just a consequence of the maths of infinity. Assign a tiny probability that an event will happen each time period and then multiply that by infini...

As I pointed out above, God would be timeless, IE he 'always' existed, was not created, just is. So there is no chicken and egg/infinite regress of cr...

There is also the same argument as above applied to time; if creation of time were a natural event, we should expect infinite times, so creation of ti...

It would require a timeless intelligence to create a dimension. I call that God (although that may not be everyone's definition of God).

If time is finite, the argument is that God created that finite time. Again I'd class creation of dimensions as an unnatural act.

The creation of time and the universe was not a natural event and was performed by a non-natural agency. As I mentioned above this agency would have t...