RE: Actual Infinity in Reality?
February 15, 2018 at 11:22 am
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2018 at 11:23 am by Whateverist.)
(February 15, 2018 at 9:47 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 14, 2018 at 8:14 pm)Whateverist Wrote: This is all to argue that the past can't be infinite, therefore God made it on His cosmic watchmaker's bench.
Not really. Thomas Aquinas, at least, felt it was indeterminate and did not matter with respect to the 2W once you account for the distinction between accidentally and essentially ordered sequences. Why do you believe it impossible to discuss have a purely metaphysical question without delving into the theological implications? Seems to me like yer itchin' for a fight.
Fight? No, an interminable argument initiated by our local theists regarding the possibility of an eternal past that is motivated by their need to think it was God who turned the light switch on all at once. But you'd have to go back to that thread to understand what motivated Steve to reshape the issue in a form he thought more salvable. Of course that hasn't worked so well thus far.