RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
August 13, 2023 at 2:47 am
(August 12, 2023 at 5:16 pm)GrandizerII Wrote: My fault for the incomplete wording. I meant at any point in time, whatever the actual position of the Earth is relative to the Sun, it could have been possible for that position to be different from what it actually is at that point in time.
Do you agree with the above?
Not agreeable. It looks like you are making soundbites. What you are saying about Earth being in a different place is like saying that if I had the sock that is in my left leg on my right leg the universe would be different.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
