Because it explains biocentrism and the finely tuned nature of the universe for life to exist.
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Physical or not it presents us with an infinite. Why a God based infinite is preferable to other types seems odd.
I try to be a fideist, but I can't help but find validity in this argument:
Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
This can't be an infinite regress of causes, because an actual infinite is impossible (given that it would never allow us to reach the present moment given an infinite past).
Therefore, everything that begins to exist ultimately must have a primary cause.
God can fit here pretty well.
But I don't think it's proof of God, but it makes room for him metaphysically.
Some part of the universe maybe. It depends on if things can exist out of time or not. Then you only need one cause to give you an infinite.
The main objection to that position is of course that such a "primary cause" does not have to be a "creator".
But I wanted to adress another point in this post:
"This can't be an infinite regress of causes, because an actual infinite is impossible (given that it would never allow us to reach the present moment given an infinite past)."
This is incorrect. It would assume that the passage of time in itself takes time. Instead, in an infinite regress of causes, every single event IS the present.
God isn't an actual infinite given that he's not composed of causes.
Why cannot God be the infinite Cause?
I think God pretty much *is* infinity. But saying he's an infinite cause (or the only infinite cause) is different than saying that he's like an actual infinite; actual infinites are infinite collections of causes, not an infinite cause.
I'm thinking He's an actual infinite. A never ending expanse of real substance that makes room within itself for finite time/space to exist.
But he's not composed of causes or discrete stuff. Actual infinites, IIRC, are from set theory; and with sets you have specific and discrete numbers. An actual infinite stands for a set with an infinite amount of numbers. God isn't divisible in this sense. Therefore he's infinity, not an actual infinite.
Well then he would be the discreet number of 1 beside which there is no other. This 1 is divisible but when it is divided it becomes a nested wave form expression of what was once unified "particle". Like the 7 colors from white light. The division is wholoarchical, and simultaneously arising.
In existent Reality, this wave form wholarchy is 3d and radial...and we are both within and composed of this Image.
God isn't an actual infinite given that he's not composed of causes.
And it's fishy how this was one single cause, rather than an infinite number. You'd think the latter if the universe (or part of it) has had an infinite amount of times to do things, which means every possible relation between atoms is expressed (within constraints of physics, of course), which would pretty much mean an infinite number of causes. Leading to an infinite number of universes.
But, well, I can only see one, and can only conjecture on a very abstract, mathematical level that there are more.
At some point a creator just has to have validity as a possible explanation.
It would require at least one infinity to be timeless.
Well once the universe exists it wouldn't need to be caused again.
Well it's all pretty much conjecture if you're asking the question of how universes come into being or if they do.
It's a question we are fairly ignorant of as of yet.
How would we calculate that point?
But I agree that it is as valid as any other explanation that does little if any explaining.
How about a really substantial infinity like a quark matter ocean with no top, bottom, or sides?
Relative time would a patterned finite void space created within the body of the Original Infinity.
The O.I. is still infinite outside relative space. It is the Eternal.
Would you be interesting in a model of infinite numbers of universe creation that renders them each finely tuned for life to exist?
We're asking questions that are pretty fundamental, and yet also straight forward.
A question like:
Did time start in a distinct moment in the past and if so how.
Is remarkably hard to deal with, without clouding the issue with lots of extraneous concepts.
Not particularly, sorry.
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