William Lane Craig denies the number zero.

[Jehanne]

Of course, most individuals in the developed (and, even, developing) world come to an understanding of "zero" sometime between early preschool and first grade.  What is Craig missing?

Funnily enough, he's missing nothing

LOL!!!

You are SO funny!!!  

[Jehanne]

What is Craig missing?

Apparently the ability to communicate to you that the nature of "0" is not entirely understood.

There is a book about the number zero:

https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Biography-Da...0140296476

I read it about 15 years ago, just after it came it out.  Apparently, the whole concept went underground for awhile, as the idea was "banned" in Florence during the high Middle Ages.  Another interesting fact is that you can prove anything if you allow division by zero.  As for Craig, you can Google his CV; he started out as a communications major, earning a BA from Wheaton College in Illinois.  After that, he went to seminary getting master degrees in Bible and Biblical history.  Ditto for his PhDs, which were basically a study in evangelical Christian apologetics.  I don't know that he ever took any "higher mathematics" while in college.  He certainly acts like he knows things, though, such as transfinite arithmetic (i.e., "elementary number theory"); I doubt very much, however, that he even took that class while in college.  I didn't, although, I did take the 3-sememter calculus sequence, linear algebra, etc.

[brewer]

Apparently the ability to communicate to you that the nature of "0" is not entirely understood.

0 is just a theory

Thanks for making we waste my time googling, ya dick.

[Edwardo Piet]

WLC is making a use/mention error.

The number zero obviously exists.. What it represents is nothingness and nothingness is the quality of nothing and is therefore nothing and therefore doesn't exist. So there is "zero" but there is no zeroness. The number zero obviously exists so he's simply mistaken due to his error.

Can't say I'm surprised he's committing a form of the equivocation fallacy (the use/mention error in this case) he does it all the fucking time.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%...istinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation

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[Mudhammam]

nothingness is the quality of nothing

My point exactly.

[Jehanne]

nothingness is the quality of nothing

My point exactly.

Makes one wonder if Craig accepts negative numbers?  After all, what makes something "negative"?

[Arkilogue]

My point exactly.

Makes one wonder if Craig accepts negative numbers?  After all, what makes something "negative"?

You can either multiply any number by negative potato or add more negative potato's than the number but that's far more laborious growing operation. Besides, you can always divide your negative potato out later and get it back.

[Arkilogue]

There's a zero because calculating with a "10" like this is a pain in the protractor.

Unless you are looking for triangular numbers.

[Edwardo Piet]

My point exactly.

Makes one wonder if Craig accepts negative numbers?  After all, what makes something "negative"?

Yeah Billy Lame Creg The Massive Equivocator be like:

"Now I'm not going to be a pessimist... so it follows from that logically that if we want to be positive in our lives we must take the view (notice how I emphasise words almost randomly) that negative numbers do not exist."

He's such a fucking cretin.

[Edwardo Piet]

Show me evidence of a ["]zero["] and I'll believe you.

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