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RE: The unmoved mover
September 23, 2016 at 4:42 pm
(September 23, 2016 at 4:32 pm)fdesilva Wrote: (September 23, 2016 at 3:51 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Therefore god?
Not yet, just getting you guys prepared.
Prepare us by first proving an object of infinite mass or a source of infinite energy... and please don't say god. That is a finite word only.
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RE: The unmoved mover
September 23, 2016 at 5:18 pm
You're committing one of the most common mistakes people make when making comparisons - you're using a word (mover) in two fundamentally different ways. You're going from the use of "move" in the context of the motion of bodies in a space to the use of "move" as a metaphor for "create." It just doesn't work - not even close. If you want to use this trick you have to be more subtle.
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RE: The unmoved mover
September 23, 2016 at 5:28 pm
(September 23, 2016 at 3:51 pm)LastPoet Wrote: If you had an infinite source of energy you can keep taking as much energy out and it will still remain infinite. That is it remains unchanged.
Ok, let's grant all that for your "if". And..?
And if not - what then?
What is your
point?
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RE: The unmoved mover
September 23, 2016 at 5:50 pm
Waitaminute. Weren't all you god botherers just recently saying an actual infinity is impossible?
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RE: The unmoved mover
September 23, 2016 at 5:52 pm
(September 23, 2016 at 4:30 pm)fdesilva Wrote: (September 23, 2016 at 5:10 am)Alex K Wrote: If God has infinite mass, he also exerts infinite gravity and crushes everything into pulp.
Sounds about right!
Alternatively He could make you fly as fast as light
Actually, he could not. Since E=mc^2, then the the speed of light would be square root of energy divided by an infinite mass. I'm no mathematician, but I'm pretty sure that any finite quantity divided by infinity is also infinite, so we're left with the untenable position than a known finite quantity is infinite.
I think.
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