If the event occurred once only in infinite time it must be unnatural. The rule is with infinite time, if an event is possible it happens an infinite ...
-'time could be infinite with matter/energy creation occurring at just one point in time and that's it' - so that would be an unnatural event caused b...
As I mentioned above: I think god, if he exists, exists outside our time so he would still be able to act without time to initiate the creation of our...
Well for example, if time was infinite then the number of seconds past so far is greater than any number; which is a contradiction, hence time is fini...
You are misunderstanding me; I believe time is finite and that finite time is the strongest evidence there is for a God. So therefore I am addressing ...
If time is finite then time must have been created by God (so I can rest my case and just address the time is infinite case). We have evidence of only...
If time is infinite and entropy increases with time, what else could happen but entropy reach a maximum? But we see a low entropy universe so if time ...
How else would you propose to reset entropy? It requires the contraction of space; IE the big crunch; there is no other way to lower entropy. An infin...
Entropy only increases with time. If time was infinite entropy would be at a maximum. It is not; so if time is infinite there must have be 'entropy re...
Correct, I'm not saying anything about the nature of God beyond his ability to create the universe. So he could be completely different to the normal ...
Existing requires coming into being. So stuff can’t have existed for ever; it must of been created. Modern cosmology points this way too; in eternal i...
If energy/matter were not created, there must be periodic entropy reset events (else entropy would be at a maximum by now). Those would be Big Bang/Bi...
If the creation event had no cause; it must be a naturally occurring event like quantum fluctuations. If it is a naturally occurring event, it should ...
The theory does not say. A common interpretation of the theory is some sort of natural event like a quantum fluctuation temporarily fluctuates the spe...
I don't think he had much of a choice. How would any God go about designing intelligent life? It's surely impossible even for Gods; we are just way to...
My argument is that it does require a creator. If eternal inflation was a natural event and time is infinite the there should be an infinite number of...
That depends on if cause and effect still have meaning outside of time; they might do in which case we could have an eternal (outside of time) God and...
The fact that there is one sort of reality we know about (the material world) does not exclude the possibility of alternative forms of reality. We are...
These solutions don't work in the material world: the entangled particles are (say) one light year apart in the material world so there is no way they...
The non-material substrate could be arranged differently so the entangled particles remain co-located in the substrate. Or FTL communication is possib...
4÷0 does not make sense. How can you split 4 loafs into 0 parts? So we have to exclude it from arithmetic for logical reasons. Apart from that, zero b...
To be fair I sited 4 separate ideas/theories that all point in the same direction. If you reject a non-material substrate, how would you explain quant...
But the one-on-one correspondence procedure yields nonsense like Galileo's paradox. And the continuum does not have a cardinality... Cantor should nev...
Can you give an example of something illogical from nature/reality? Yes but you cannot actually infinitely divide a line - it would take forever. So t...
I was a materialist but now I'm having second thoughts. Some sort of material/non-material hybrid is maybe what reality is. So not materialism and not...
Whats logical about ? + 1 = ? (implies 1 = 0)? In fact infinity is invariant under all arithmetic operations; what's logical about something that when...
But nature is logical so maths can explain it because it is logical also. Actual infinity is not a logical concept so does not fits in maths or nature...
And your attitude is isomorphic to an adherent of magic. How exactly is the universe meant to function without cause and effect, by magic? What mechan...
I just cannot countenance a non-deterministic interpretation and then many worlds Interpretation is IMO crazy so I'm staying with non-local hidden var...
I don't believe the wave function collapse is random, so there must be hidden variables in the non-material substrate. Everything is cause and effect ...
I don't think you can have finite time with the A theory. Then there would just be a start of time with nothing (no time) before it so it requires cre...
Geometry reflects reality. If we can't construct it geometrically, its probably does not exist. If you sub-divide a continuum you get two continua ide...
And what is your definition of a continuum? All the mathematical definitions I've seen use instances or short durations of some form. What do you mean...
I believe nature is fundamentally logical and that it can be accurately described using logic IE maths. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you but that's the ...
Which is not a number. Basic maths says there is no number X greater than all others because X+1>X. No infinite numbers. So my proof holds. Would you ...
I'll adopt an axiom of cause and effect and then argue that an infinite regression in time is impossible: 1. By the axiom of cause and effect, there w...
But A theory is incoherent also because an infinite regress is incoherent. B theory can be combined with finite spacetime to avoid any need for an inf...
Something always existing makes sense. You can't get something from nothing so something must have always existed. Could it be what always existed is ...
I'm not sure if time exists or not. I suspect it does. Some other arguments that it exists are given here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/c...
Staring with the relativistic energy-momentum equation: KE = mc² ? ? (1 - v² ? c²) So m = KE × ? (1 - v² ? c²) / c² So time (in the v term) determines...
But a claim is made about the nature of God; that he is all powerful enough to prevent all evil. If God is good but not omnipotent, a universe that co...
You can say time is a human construct but it represents something that does/did exist in reality. There was ‘then’ and there is ‘now’ and there is a n...
How do we describe time then? The only models of a continua I've seen have used points or line segments to model it. In both cases its valid to discus...
What changes to make ‘now’ ‘then’? There is some measurable quantity we call time that changes. So it is reasonable to discuss the duration of 'now'. ...
Length of 'now' If we consider the length of ‘now’, it cannot be zero seconds because that gives a divide by zero error when we work out the number of...
? * 10 = ? ? / 4 = ? etc... So an axiom of infinity is effectively 'when you change it, it does not change'. What sort of reasonable system of the wor...
Meaningless ways. Bijection is meaningless. How can there be the same number of naturals as rationals? Each natural is clearly composed of a potential...
It clearly does give the wrong results. There are more numbers than squares in any finite interval. So we can induce this applies to all intervals. Bu...
You do not have much familiarity with basic logic. A number cannot be larger than any number and be a number at the same time. None of you will addres...
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