(February 14, 2018 at 5:57 pm)SteveII Wrote: I am not asking if there is a concept in mathematics that deals with infinity or if there exists sets with an infinite number of members (although you might use the concept in a larger argument). I am not asking if we can theoretically divide something an infinite amount of times (although you might use the concept in a larger argument). I am not asking about a potential infinite.
I am asking about an actual infinite of something concrete (not abstract). Can it logically exist? Why or why not?
No mention of God either. Philosophy subforum--let's stick with pure metaphysics.
"metaphysics" is NOT a real science. It is simply mental masturbation.
Quantum physics IS a real science.
Not that you will consider this, but who gives a flying fig anyway? You have a specific pet god you gap fill with and think no other religion tries to square itself with science. Hate to burst your bubble, but Muslims, and Jews and Hindus and even Buddhists also attempt to get science to point to their clubs.
And do not hand me any garbage about not having an agenda in that you are not talking about your God. Maybe not in this thread, but this is just a distraction for you to attempt to sound neutral and objective. In other threads and on other websites for that matter you will try to point to your pet God.
But we can play your game here.
1. Stick to metaphysics = Allah, what, that doesn't make sense to you now?
2. Stick to metaphysics = Yahweh, how about now?
3. Stick to metaphysics = Buddha, how about now?
4. Stick to metaphysics = Hindu creator God Brahma, how about now?
You only start threads like this to try to look neutral and objective. But you are not the only religion, or the first theist we've seen to attempt this fake neutrality.
I see no conflict between infinite and finite and regardless there does not need to be a god of the gaps either way as a starting point.
I see "infinite" as simply the non cognitive fluctuation between a finite "off" to a finite "on". As long as you are breaking it up the cycle can continue forever between a finite on and a finite off without suffering the problem of infinite regress. But regardless, humans make up god claims as a reflection of their own attributes, every single one claimed in our species history, both polytheist and monotheists.
Humans are merely a temporary blip in our own point of view arrow in our universe.