(August 13, 2009 at 5:50 pm)LukeMC Wrote: Question: is an infinite regress of causality a hard idea to accept in an infinite universe?The idea of an infinite regression of time, or of an inifinite causal regression, is not a "hard" idea, but an idea which is, a) possibily incoherent since it is irrational to say that there is an infinite regression when we have clearly reached this point in time, and it is a mathematical fact that you cannot transverse infinity, b) unverifiable and undemonstrable, c) excluded per Occams razor because there are better cosmogonies which do not invoke infinite regression.
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