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GOD, THE INFINITE REGRESS, & SPECIAL PLEADING

On: Tuesday, February 25, 2014

 Here are some great examples of special pleading & pseudo-logic. Enjoy

Christian -

1. It follows that, if there is no beginning, then the past of the universe is also endless. Hence, if we try and regress into the distant past, we will just have to go on forever:


2. But this is supposing that the past flows in only one direction, i.e. away from the present, when the past really ends in the present and continues into the future:

3. Hence, the past is not endless but is rather extending towards infinity, and so is not itself infinite in degree.

4. It follows that the universe cannot have an endless past, but instead must have a finite past.

5. Therefore, the universe is not beginningless but must have had a definite and absolute beginning.

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Atheist -

Let us "theistically" (for the sake of argument) assume that God is beginningless:

1. It follows that, if there is no beginning, then the past of God is also endless. Hence, if we try and regress into the distant past, we will just have to go on forever:

2. But this is supposing that the past flows in only one direction, i.e. away from the present, when the past really ends in the present and continues into the future:

3. Hence, the past is not endless but is rather extending towards infinity, and so is not itself infinite in degree.

4. It follows that God cannot have an endless past, but instead must have a finite past.

Remember these are "examples" :0)


or are they?

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