RE: An infinite progress
September 2, 2021 at 1:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2021 at 1:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(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?
Maybe gods are created, ultimately, the same way we are. For there to be a waterfall god, nature has to build the waterfall.
My view, if nature does build waterfalls, and those waterfalls are a meaningful causal agent in some circumstance of consequence in our lives - that's a more direct and demonstrable route to godhood or divine authority than some flirty ghost who played in the mud one day.
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