Gregory

What evidence for some "person" out there from matter? None. What evidence we don't have to struggle? None. Your position is high fangled and impracti...

My own argument against God is that we are images of God but are forced to suffer while God is not forced to suffer. This is not symmetrical because o...

The teleological argument looks for signs of God in nature. Carroll looks for things that one would expect but doesn't find and so concludes one canno...

Carroll is using teleological arguments against themselves, not saying that teleological arguments are logical. An illogical argument follows its own ...

How can there be more than one God?

It's a paradox. They say God loves everyone with the same love but gives some more than others. But to give more has motive in love. So it's unanswera...

There is no logical fallacy in Carroll's argument. Not all arguments follow symbolism

Sean Carroll made an interesting argument about God. He said suppose we lived in a world where children never suffered. The priests would be saying "l...

Michio Kaku says strings are one dimensional yet discrete. There is no easy way out of these issues without advanced math

The theory of loop quantum gravity, along with string theory, propose that matter is not infinitely divisible but they could be wrong. I'm not a mathe...

As one that self loops and so stays finite. Something discrete is an infinitesimal. It infinitely gets close to zero but never reaches it. Whether thi...

According to Thomas Aquinas, God is in the world in his essence. So God is us, closer to us than our egos

Quantified means discrete, right? If there is a series of discrete spaces with the spaces between them being meaningless then motion is getting steppi...

Yes. Zeno, Parmenides, and Mellisus thought the world one unity, one form

What is knowledge however. What if I said that Islam and Christianity were BOTH true? They have conflicting claims, but could they be reconciled by a ...

Zeno said that the world can't be infinite yet it's infinitly divisible, and it can be finite because the division of nature goes on forever. String t...

According to modern physics, motion is relative, not absolute. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1lU6DmLy6m9a1IBbs2NKx5XBaUIaBkcjQ984b_s_4...

There is also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissus_of_Samos

His opponents thought that. He thought the world was one metaphysical thing, like Spinoza

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No, you've only shown it's possible. Go over your premises again.

I've found atheism to be very aesthetically pleasing, just as much as theism

Ok, but imagine if all that existed was an infinite spiral water slide going vertically down forever. The water that has always traveled on it has the...

A physical Alpha? There doesn't have to be a loop or an infinite past. The first motion is the first motion and there is nothing prior. In physics thi...

"1. Either all things have a prior cause for their existence or there is at least one first cause of existence from which a chain of events follows." ...

If the first cause is material than we are on the same page. If it is spiritual than we are not

It's the same argument. You can't imagine an infinite series going into the past without a God? Some can. For me it always comes to paradoxes, but the...

I did reread it, sheesh. Aristotle argues that infinities on their own are unstable and a past infinity needs a root in a first cause, just as you say...

It depends on how much of the Gospel you accept.

The first part of the argument that limits imply infinity and then it says necessity means exists. None is supported

Your OP, which I read months ago, says nothing about Hawking's or Krauss's argument, but just rehearsed Aristotle's argument about an infinite past

Why do people try to prove there is a God unless they are trying to convince themselves or can't handle people having different beliefs? "We can not t...

Pascal's wager would require us to study the hells of all the religions and go with the one that has the most painful of them all. When there is no ev...

Thomas Aquinas thought the world could be eternal. However he argued there are no actual infinities. But what if there were always humans then there w...

I don't think one has to be an infinite being to simply understand the idea of "no end"

And aren't souls finite?

The brain is more than the sum of it's parts. It doesn't know infinity by counting but by a general, more philosophical method

Just as Egregore is about gods becoming actual from our thoughts, thoughts are like the gods of the body while the servant as well since they depend o...

Why did 14% say there are no thoughts? Are they thinking what Dennett says about consciousness being an illusion?

Consciousness is a 0 that comes from a one. You've never read Sartre?

Consciousness can think of infinity

Descartes said that the idea of God requires a soul for it to be understood. You're saying even understanding infinity requires more than matter. If y...

The brain is like a muscle from which thoughts spring when it flexes, but these thoughts aren't entities in themselves. They are abstract beings and t...

Matter doesn't use atoms as numbers in its counting. In fact the brain thinks by abstracting when it comes to infinity

Last Thursdayism is not about time being different for different people. It's doubting that you past happened regardless of its rate. Descartes had th...

You call other posters idiots but you've changed your own views from discussions here. You now say God can't both exist and not exist, contradicting p...

Thursdayism says the world started last Thursday. It has nothing to do with time dilation

Why doubt everything instead of "learn everything". To deny you typed a message after you send it is irresponsibility, so responsibility proves Thursd...

I think aliens, actually, prove scientific materialism false. How can someone prove everyone else is not an alien without common sense. You can't get ...

It is not possible for a sound mind to doubt previous seconds exist. You couldn't understand time otherwise. We know we are in time and it has a past ...