Presentism and Infinite Chain of Past Events

[GrandizerII]

I've never been terribly fussed over this 'infinite regress of events' thingy.  I consider it to be a non-problem brought up by theists to create a non-solution.  It is only a problem for atheists who insist that the universe is infinitely old. The theist counter is that the universe must have had a beginning, and that beginning must have had a cause and that cause must have been God blah blah blah.

Since it is pretty clear that the universe doesn't regress infinitely into the past, why should time?

Boru

Because then you'd have to deal with logical problems associated with timeless entities, including timeless causation.

Also, I don't think even the Big Bang theory states that the universe had a beginning. Rather, what began with the Big Bang was the expansion of the universe, not its existence.

I refer you to this link from Sean Carroll's website:
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog...rse-start/

There is something of a paradox in the way that cosmologists traditionally talk about the Big Bang. They will go to great effort to explain how the Bang was the beginning of space and time, that there is no “before” or “outside,” and that the universe was (conceivably) infinitely big the very moment it came into existence, so that the pasts of distant points in our current universe are strictly non-overlapping. All of which, of course, is pure moonshine. When they choose to be more careful, these cosmologists might say “Of course we don’t know for sure, but…” Which is true, but it’s stronger than that: the truth is, we have no good reasons to believe that those statements are actually true, and some pretty good reasons to doubt them.

And as I said in my OP, eternalism avoids the problem of temporal infinite regress even with a posited eternal universe.