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Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Yes. Not that it matters much, as we are talking about the universe that didn't come into existence at all (according to GR).Ok, but that doesn’t imply that things can come in to existence without a cause………………….do you think that things can come in to existence without a cause? Yes or no?.
When we are talking about cosmology and physics, I'll take the word of experts in those fields over a philosopher with an agenda. An infinite past is perfectly possible (not that the particular hypothesis means that exactly, since the past becomes the future). There are also many other hypotheses, such as starting in a closed time-like loop, time being basically circular, various cyclic models, and so on. All of them are scientific hypotheses extrapolated from what is known ans not some made up magic.WELL what is wrogn with the 4 arguments described by WLC in favor of a finite past?
It's a long article you linked, so I'm not sure what four things you referred to, but I noticed "An actual infinite cannot exist.", which is drivel. Even in classical physics, there are an infinite number of positions between any two distinct points in space.
Of course, I don't. Craig appears to be all but scientifically illiterate and relying on out-dated philosophy that was dodgy even before modern science.Here is the issue, people like WLC don’t claim “it´s true because I say so” they provide reasons and evidence in support for each premise and step of the argument………………..you might disagree. …you might think that the evidence if false, fallacious or wrong……….. but you have to support it
It's not semantics - it's physics, it appears that you simply don't understand the modern conception of time. The 'first moment' (if there was one) has no more significance to the existence of 4D space-time than the North Pole has to the existence of the 3D planet Earth.Again begin to exist simply means that there was a first moment (or moments)……such that there was no “before” that moment of time………..this is also explained in detail I the source that I shared prissily to avoid semantic tricks
Again, regardless of if time is finite in the past direction through it, the space-time did not start to exist (if GR is a good model, which it appears to be).