Devans99

The traditional Christian view of God is that he is eternal and infinite. I wonder if some people are still religiously invested in infinity? I suspec...

It would be better if people would just give a percentage: 0%->100% Theist. Then we'd know exactly where everyone stands.

I conjecture it is likely that God exists; that's not the same as belief. I think there are different ways of learning about God: - Through his works ...

Unfortunately this is far from universally the case; many mathematicians have made a substantial intellectual investment in Cantor's flavour of actual...

But the continuous is by definition infinitely divisible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_time_and_continuous_time So infinitely divisible time...

I was wondering about that: If time is truly continuous then a 1 second interval is graduated as finely as a 1 hour interval (implicit from the defini...

'God is not omniscience' is a good axiom IMO. A self-evident truth: Its not possible to know everything. For example all the digits of pi. So I think ...

It was a mistake for Christianity to adopt the 'believe in Jesus else eternal damnation!' message. Not well thought through; they have left 2000 years...

Are we allowed axioms? If yes: Axiom: God is not omniscience Then even God cannot know if there is another greater god than him in existence somewhere...

- Assume space is continuous - Then there is an actually infinite amount of information in a spacial volume of 10000 cubic units - There is also an ac...

I think you might be over complicating things. Things without a start don't exist: - X exists eternally within time - So X has no temporal start - So ...

"contradiction, noun, a combination of statements, ideas, or features which are opposed to one another." A completely full hotel that can except infin...

Agreed. For example, if God exists in time, who created time? (plus all the other problems list in the OP). I guess thats the traditional view but an ...

Eternal Life The USP of most religions is eternal life. The closest concept to that in main stream science is Relativity which implies the past and fu...

Apologies, I did not realise, but there are actually two different definitions of eternal: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eternal https://en.wikipedia...

I don't believe in Actual Infinity but lets not debate that on this thread... I suspect god is timeless too but this presents difficulties; time seems...

A counter argument for hell existing: 1 All good thinking beings would want corrective punishment for wrong doers 2 The creator(s) of the universe are...

Yes, it strikes me as strange no-one tries to formulate a more believable religion than the ones we have currently. A Religion with a creation story r...

If we expect to see God, we will be disappointed; the universe is too large and too young for God to have had time to see us: - 1 x 10^24 estimated st...

Everyone can understand the prime mover; its simple. Its easy to argue that god (if he exists) must be benevolent. So I think people argue for his exi...

I thought that Special Relativity implied Eternalism: - Special Relativity asserts the existence of multiple 'nows' - All 'nows' must exist concurrent...

The 2nd law is more than just a natural law; its just a common sense proposition that it applies everywhere and to everything. But I agree with you, G...

The 2nd law is fundamental and it relates just to change. All change increase Entropy. Does not matter if you are timeless or in a different universe,...

Well there is the god is dead argument: - Entropy increases with time - When entropy gets too high, you die - Universe is 14 billion years old - 14 bi...

If both the following hold true: - Einstein's Relativity is correct - There is something that distinguishes 'now' from 'past' and 'future' Then we nee...

I'm a lacto-vegetarian. I want to be vegan but I can't quite manage without the milk. Well done! I think Christianity should be all about compassion f...

I think if we drop time/causality and assume a timeless god with permanent existence outside time, the need for god's designer lessens: God just exist...

Point 6 asserts that time clearly passes. I'd argue this is true for both Presentism and Eternalism: There is clearly some distinction between present...

- Presentism means the past and future don't exist, only now. - Has 'now' existed always? - No. Implies a start of time. Implies time is real. Implies...

We have been discussing this here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/4073/do-you-believe-in-the-actually-infinite/p1 I think most people are i...

Thanks for the reply! I don't think you can exist within time without a start, that would make you undefined. God(s), if they exist, exist outside of ...

Similar to Pascal’s wager: - if you are evil and god is evil you are punished - if you are good and god is evil you are punished - if you are evil and...

I guess if you want to follow Pascal to the letter, you have to adopt the religion most likely to be the true faith. By popularity: http://www.adheren...

Eternalism is positive in that we and all of our moments have some form of permanent existence. Whether we actually get to experience stuff again is a...

You have a distinct consciousness for each moment in time. No shared experiences between the different consciousness’s. Eternalism has problems but le...

But energy comes in quanta so there must be finitely many initial energy levels? So given infinite time but not space, everything should repeat endles...

Yes you do divide: - the number line between 0 and 1 has length 1 - to find out how many things fit on the line - divide line length by the thing leng...

Time is real, permanent and finite: our universe and our time are embedded in base reality so each of our moments past, present or future maps to a po...

I did not say it should exist in time. The full argument goes: 1. Something can’t come from nothing 2. So base reality must have always existed 3. If ...

I think a finate universe but infinite time is sufficient for ‘if it can happen it has happened an infinite number of times’

Exactly. Limits tend to but never reach actual infinity. Actual Infinity should be undefined in mathematics. 1. Something can’t come from nothing 2. S...

Even if time is emergent from change, my 9 arguments against Presentism still hold; time emerges with the characteristics required by Presentism or Et...

Is there a god? It’s a boolean question so a gambling man would initially answer 50% yes 50% no and proceed to alter the odds in light of the evidence...

They said the laws of physics are omnipotent. Makes sense; we all do what we are told by the laws of physics so they are god-like in a sense.

Exactly we are the broken eggs that make the omelette of utopia

The existence of only the present means time did not have a start, which means that things have been around eternally. Hence some of my arguments.

I define nothing as no matter, energy or dimensions. Complete nothing. Not a quantum fluctuation in sight.

Sub-optimal existence and the problem of evil are transitory problems; they will go away as we evolve further. We are still a very immature society by...

We are animals evolving into gods. All part of God’s plan.

But time is fundamental to the universe - the speed of light (speed=distance/time) speed limit is a fundamental law that governs everything in the uni...