RE: Eternal the originator of time - proof.
April 11, 2015 at 8:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2015 at 9:29 pm by bennyboy.)
What you have done is said "Existence represents an infinite regression, which is paradoxical. Therefore, we need a philosophical quantity, X, which solves this paradox."
The problem is that you insist X must be separate from whatever exists. However, there is now a new system: "whatever exists + X," and you anyway need to explain how this new system originated. You will need an infinite regression of Gods.
There is a debating term that exactly defines what you are doing: special pleading. This is your argument: "Everything must be created, so it must all have been created by something which does not need to be created." So your first thesis: "everything must be created" is falsified, since you are allowing (asserting, actually) that at least one thing doesn't need to be created, and so you NO LONGER NEED to invent a new entity. You can just say, for example, "Every cause needs in turn another cause. Therefore the universe must have existed forever." No new quantity X required.
The problem is that you insist X must be separate from whatever exists. However, there is now a new system: "whatever exists + X," and you anyway need to explain how this new system originated. You will need an infinite regression of Gods.
There is a debating term that exactly defines what you are doing: special pleading. This is your argument: "Everything must be created, so it must all have been created by something which does not need to be created." So your first thesis: "everything must be created" is falsified, since you are allowing (asserting, actually) that at least one thing doesn't need to be created, and so you NO LONGER NEED to invent a new entity. You can just say, for example, "Every cause needs in turn another cause. Therefore the universe must have existed forever." No new quantity X required.
