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Apologetics open challenge
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RE: Apologetics open challenge
Well, I still don't know what a point in time beginning to exist is meant to mean. It follows on from the previous point in time, quite possibly discretely if I understand the science. So whatever point you pick, it will follow on from the previous one, and so on. Where is the paradox? You are assuming it cannot have always been going, that someone must set it in motion. You are simply assuming the past is not infinite by doing this.

The problem of infinite regress is more of a problem for you, because whatever "creator" or whatever you want to call it you try to prove, has to have come from somewhere by your own argument. It can't have always been there, by your argument. Anything else is special pleading.

An infinite regress of time holds no such problem.
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Apologetics open challenge - by robvalue - July 20, 2015 at 3:26 am
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RE: Apologetics open challenge - by Angrboda - October 3, 2015 at 11:11 am
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