(July 26, 2022 at 12:23 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(July 25, 2022 at 10:41 pm)Angrboda Wrote: In other words, it's prima facie incoherent. And that's how it stays unless you go with the copout that "It's a mystery." Yeah. Tell me again about how Christianity restores intelligibility to the universe.
My point was that such paradoxes are not worth debating because there are prior assumptions. K is making a theological case based on a certain interpretation of time. Change that and the theology changes. It seems that many "answers" are really just stories that fit predetermined understanding about how the word works. Like the question ealier about "When did God create time?" Paradoxes IMHO generally mean you're asking the wrong question. The paradox arises because the presumed relationiship between Creator and creation is that of a Hegelian dialectic that is more semantic in nature than causal.
Singularities (regions of infinite density) do not exist in Nature; they are absurdities, which are indicative of the fact that a physical theory has been pushed beyond its limits.
Your reasoning begins not with a question, but with an answer, and you simply work your way back to justify that which you already concluded is true. It's fides quaerens intellectum; it's pointless to even discuss things with you; you're committed to never changing your mind.
By the way, most professional philosophers are atheistic:
https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl
