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Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?

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Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
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Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 20, 2023 at 5:56 pm
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RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 20, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Not sure why this is under 'Atheism' but I honestly don't know where to put it.
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RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 20, 2023 at 6:02 pm
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RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 20, 2023 at 8:25 pm
(June 20, 2023 at 6:00 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Not sure why this is under 'Atheism' but I honestly don't know where to put it.

Need a section for A-brainism.
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RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 21, 2023 at 12:46 pm
(June 20, 2023 at 6:00 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Not sure why this is under 'Atheism' but I honestly don't know where to put it.

Countering the Aquinas'es arguments for the existence of God belongs to "atheism", doesn't it?
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RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 21, 2023 at 12:48 pm
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RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 21, 2023 at 12:50 pm
(June 21, 2023 at 12:48 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:
(June 20, 2023 at 6:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Maximally cold’ doesn’t mean 0 Kelvins. It means as cold as something can get.

You ask a lot of silly questions, for which I sincerely thank you.

Boru

So, is there a thing which is as cold as it can get?

Of course there is. Anything will get as cold as it can get.

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RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 21, 2023 at 12:51 pm (This post was last modified: June 21, 2023 at 12:52 pm by Anomalocaris.)
well,  there is no doubt a coldest thing in the universe at any given time.   that would be the coldest you can get at this time in the history of the universe.   there is some chance that coldest thing is inside a physics laboratory on earth.

so St Aquinaus should god is that physics laboratory on earth, not a bearded man in the sky.
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RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 21, 2023 at 2:37 pm
(June 21, 2023 at 12:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(June 21, 2023 at 12:48 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: So, is there a thing which is as cold as it can get?

Of course there is. Anything will get as cold as it can get.

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You mean, at the heat death of the universe? But things that will exist at the time of the heat death of the universe are not eternal or aevum, they will not have existed forever. They do not exist yet, for example. Thomas Aquinas is claiming God has to exist now, not that he will exist some distant time in the future.
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RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 21, 2023 at 2:52 pm
(June 21, 2023 at 2:37 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:
(June 21, 2023 at 12:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Of course there is. Anything will get as cold as it can get.

Boru
You mean, at the heat death of the universe? But things that will exist at the time of the heat death of the universe are not eternal or aevum, they will not have existed forever. They do not exist yet, for example. Thomas Aquinas is claiming God has to exist now, not that he will exist some distant time in the future.

No, I don’t mean at the heat death of the universe. There are sets of conditions in the here-and-now when anything will reach a point at which it can get no colder. An object doesn’t have to be at 0 kelvins to be maximally cold.

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