Natural Order and Science

[robvalue]

As far as I can see, it's only a problem for logic as applied to our reality and how it appears to work. Who knows how other realities might work, or how they interact? Viewed from the right perspective, an infinite regression might make perfect sense. It's only logically inconsistent if we demand everything have a finite past, and insist on a common sense linear timeline. It seems very much the case that time doesn't "work" how it appears to work to the casual observer.

Or, as you say, maybe there's infinite regression going on in this reality. We don't get to say there isn't, because it doesn't seem to make sense in our models.

I think Harris is very confused between descriptive models and prescriptive. We don't get to tell reality how it works, we observe and we try and make models that are as accurate as possible. But reality has the final say, always.

But these stupid arguments insist that there should be an infinite regress, but there isn't, therefor magic stopper God. It's beyond ridiculous.