RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
November 18, 2022 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2022 at 1:26 pm by Jehanne.)
(November 18, 2022 at 12:33 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(November 18, 2022 at 11:09 am)Jehanne Wrote: Have you read Dot, Dot, Dot...Infinity Plus God Equals Folly?
I'm always leery about popular treatments of mathematics, especially treatments of infinity.
What would you say is the core of his argument?
He introduces ZFC and says that, apart from finitists, mathematicians no longer (since Cantor) view the concept of infinity as being equinumerous; as you know, there are an infinite number of infinite sets, one countable and an infinite number that are not. Applying infinite attributes to a God in a qualitative manner is a cop-out, and doing so in a quantitative manner is meaningless.