(September 2, 2021 at 12:04 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(September 2, 2021 at 9:02 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: Infinite regress is the argument that theists use, not atheists.
But only because theists have an Aristotle fetish. The idea that an infinite regress is absurd comes from him.
I can see why he thought that, though. It doesn't really make sense. The big issue, though, is that Aristotle's prime mover nor God explains away an infinite regress. Because "How did God get there?" We are told God is self-caused, but that seems ad hoc to me. I could just as easily imagine God being created by "proto-God." Can anyone prove otherwise?
And if God is self-caused, there’s no reason the Universe couldn’t be.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson