RE: Proving God Existence
March 18, 2013 at 7:07 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2013 at 7:15 pm by NoMoreFaith.)
(March 18, 2013 at 3:46 pm)Muslim Scholar Wrote:(March 18, 2013 at 10:19 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: The problem with it all starts very early. "a consistent (as we assume) set of repeated events we use as a reference (e.g. clock ticks, radiation, moon cycle, etc."Actually it doesn't matter at all if it is really consistent or not
I would imagine the whole thing runs into problems when you realise these "reference" points are relative and not consistent throughout the whole universe simultaneously.
I would also imagine that the OP would sooner reinterpret the argument to take things like this into account than to admit the conclusion is faulty.
Time can be just a relation between two events
"I went home while eating a sandwich"
If there is more than one event happening, then time can exist
We can call it MyTime instead of time, in the context of the proof I can name anything as long it is not setting a false fact.
So your argument is essentially - while it may appear that I can split the time between 1 second and 2 seconds into infinite numerical values - but because I can get to 2 seconds, time must be made of finite "bits" and therefore not infinite.
By the same reasoning - you prove numbers are finite - because you can count up to 2. Even thou there appears to be infinite "bits" of number. 1.11, 1.123... etc - You can count to 2, therefore there must be finite bits between 1.00000001... and 1.999999999... therefore numbers are finite.
And you don't think your reasoning might be faulty at some point in this assumption.
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If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm