(February 15, 2018 at 9:47 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 14, 2018 at 8:14 pm)Whateverist Wrote: This is all to argue that the past can't be infinite, therefore God made it on His cosmic watchmaker's bench.
Not really. Thomas Aquinas, at least, felt it was indeterminate and did not matter with respect to the 2W once you account for the distinction between accidentally and essentially ordered sequences. Why do you believe it impossible to discuss have a purely metaphysical question without delving into the theological implications? Seems to me like yer itchin' for a fight.
Well, that *was* the origin of the discussion in the other thread. But, yes, this is a different thread.
I've yet to see a valid argument for why an infinite past is impossible. I get a bunch of 'you can get to now otherwise', but that is assuming a start infinitely far in the past. if there is no start at all, then there is no issue.
