(February 9, 2018 at 10:55 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(February 9, 2018 at 5:28 pm)SteveII Wrote: Your first sentence is a contradiction. It is impossible to count to infinity with successive addition. Think about it: what number plus 1 gets you to infinity? Looking at that in reverse, if there were an infinite number of events in the past you would never count down from the past to 3...2...1...present event. The present would never arrive. Saying silly things like if you never *start* does nothing to solve it.
Good thing we don't have to worry about all this anyway (except purely for the sake of intellectual stimulation and nothing more), considering the implications of modern cosmology/physics with regards to time and causality and all that.
You just said we don't have to worry about your favored eternal universe theory being logically impossible because...why? Even B-theory of time affirms causality and a direction of causality. You don't escape the problem one bit.
