(February 11, 2018 at 4:40 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(February 11, 2018 at 1:05 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (my bold)
They claim that there is one necessary thing and to this thing they call god. Not the other way around, like you're implying.
Unless you elaborate on what you mean, I don't think I'm wrong here. God, by definition, is necessary (according to them). If God is not necessary, he is not God. Again, according to them.
I mean that their arguments establishes that a purely necessary thing must exist and only then do they call it god. Then they work the other way and fill up this god with a bunch of features.
(February 11, 2018 at 4:40 pm)Grandizer Wrote:Quote:The infinite regress (that can be claimed to come about through the establishment of space-time, the cosmos, as the most necessary thing) can be avoided if one notes that it is possible for time to exist and yet not pass - a photon, traveling at the speed of light, does not age.
You mean the B-theory of time? I agree.
No, I don't mean that.... but I'd put that in as one of those weird features... at least a possible one.