(January 12, 2019 at 1:45 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(January 11, 2019 at 9:48 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Why would there have to be an infinite regress? Actually I would assert quite the opposite, but happy to hear you out.
God as a gap answer begs the question if you are to assert everything has a creator. If everything has a creator, then that creator had an even more complex creator. But if you want to claim God did not have creator, then it seems to me the universe not having one would be a much more simple answer then trying to plug in a super cognition as the starting point.
If you look at life, our planet, our sun, solar system, our galaxy and the universe as simply cycle, like you accept spring turning into summer, then fall, then winter, then back to spring, it would be a much more simple answer to see the universe as a cycle, and not a factory product.
You're asserting something that isn't necessary. If God is eternal, self-sufficient, and time is subject to Him, then no need for a regress.
I don't see the universe as a factory product. Additionally, the right or best answer isn't always the simplest one. But even so, your explanation seems to be the one complicating things. If we have a root source of knowledge, then no need to make assumptions about what that root source has already shown us.
