'Eternals' and 'infinities' are things we can definitely never observe or prove actually exist, although they may. Speculation about something being 'infinite' or 'eternal' can never be more than speculation.
'Indefinitely large', 'having no known or knowable bounds', this is as much as we can honestly say. True infinity is a different thing again.
MockingGods Philosophical Prodigy
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Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:53 pm
BobSpence1 wrote:
Whereas proposing a God is not a valid solution to existence because you have only added another layer of mystery to the problem, along with the question of what created God? So actually it has zero explanatory power, along with the implied infinite regression of creators.
It's turtles all the way down
Raligan Post Noob
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Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:17 pm
MockingGods wrote:
BobSpence1 wrote:
Whereas proposing a God is not a valid solution to existence because you have only added another layer of mystery to the problem, along with the question of what created God? So actually it has zero explanatory power, along with the implied infinite regression of creators.
It's turtles all the way down
Tortoises.
MockingGods Philosophical Prodigy
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Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:08 pm
Raligan wrote:
MockingGods wrote:
BobSpence1 wrote:
Whereas proposing a God is not a valid solution to existence because you have only added another layer of mystery to the problem, along with the question of what created God? So actually it has zero explanatory power, along with the implied infinite regression of creators.
It's turtles all the way down
Tortoises.
Testudines
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We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.
jkorath Grand Poster
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Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:41 am
BobSpence1 wrote:
'Eternals' and 'infinities' are things we can definitely never observe or prove actually exist, although they may. Speculation about something being 'infinite' or 'eternal' can never be more than speculation.
'Indefinitely large', 'having no known or knowable bounds', this is as much as we can honestly say. True infinity is a different thing again.
Well put. I ended up learning all of that while earning a math degree. Before I learned about it I hadn't thought about it really. It sure is fun to speculate about!
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