The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.

[Angrboda]

Angrboda, you did not engage with this:

"Again, all you have to do to realize the Universe cannot be actually infinite in the past, given that we got here, is count backward into the past.

You claim it is a false analogy to say that if we started from 1,2,3, we will never get to infinity, but allegedly, starting from infinity, we can get to 0.

All you have to do is count backward in time. If we started from -infinity, we would never get to 0. We got to 0, therefore we didn't start from -infinity."

I said it to Polymath in the course of a reply to him, where I engaged seriously with all his arguments; but it also applies to your position, since it is similar.

Where did you engage with it?

https://atheistforums.org/thread-65126-p...pid2156867

All of your counter-arguments involve successive addition and showing that successive addition doesn't work. That's because the past wasn't formed by successive addition if the universe is past eternal, so all your counter-arguments are irrelevant nonsequiturs which have nothing to do with what is actually proposed. Nobody denies your arguments, we're simply pointing out that they don't apply because that's not how infinities work. It's just a big math fail on your part. Cite one authoritative source that says that you can form an infinite set through successive addition. Just one. Otherwise, move on because the point has been mooted.