God Must Exist: Infinite Regression is Impossible

[We_Are_VENOM]

[The Tanager]

[Bust Nak]

Do you believe in the A-Theory or B-theory of time?

I don't have a preference here.

Is temporal becoming an objective feature of the natural universe, in your view?

Is this just another way of the same question as above? If not then I would say the temporal is (rather than becoming) an objective feature of the natural universe whether the past, present and future are fundamentally different or not.

[bluegreenearth]

[William]

[We_Are_VENOM]

Before you walked to the street corner, you walked a linear segment that was half the distance to the street corner. Before you walked half the distance to the street corner, you walked a linear segment that was half that distance. If every previous linear segment of your journey was half the length of the linear segment ahead of it, you would have walked an infinite number of linear segments in order to find yourself standing on the street corner. If an infinite number of linear segments had to be traversed before you could have "arrived" at the street corner, according to your logic, how was it possible for you to complete the journey?

So, lets place a natural number on every single "linear segment", with the first segment represented by #1.

And I were to count all of the segments within that set, as I walked....one by one...would I ever arrive at the street corner if I counted one by one, in successive addition?

Yes or no?

[bluegreenearth]

Before you walked to the street corner, you walked a linear segment that was half the distance to the street corner. Before you walked half the distance to the street corner, you walked a linear segment that was half that distance. If every previous linear segment of your journey was half the length of the linear segment ahead of it, you would have walked an infinite number of linear segments in order to find yourself standing on the street corner. If an infinite number of linear segments had to be traversed before you could have "arrived" at the street corner, according to your logic, how was it possible for you to complete the journey?

So, lets place a natural number on every single "linear segment", with the first segment represented by #1.

And I were to count all of the segments within that set, as I walked....one by one...would I ever arrive at the street corner if I counted one by one, in successive addition?

Yes or no?

In the scenario I described, you are standing at the street corner and considering the number of linear segments that exists between your current location and your starting point. So, the fact that you are standing at the corner demonstrates you did arrive despite your inability to count the infinite segments comprising your journey.

[We_Are_VENOM]

In the scenario I described, you are standing at the street corner and considering the number of linear segments that exists between your current location and your starting point. So, the fact that you are standing at the corner demonstrates you did arrive despite your inability to count the infinite segments comprising your journey.

So let me rephrase the question...if I were counting all of the segments in numerical order with ever step, and I stopped counting once I arrived at the street corner, which number would represent the "corner segment"?

[bluegreenearth]

So let me rephrase the question...if I were counting all of the segments in numerical order with ever step, and I stopped counting once I arrived at the street corner, which number would represent the "corner segment"?

Your first step traverses infinite segments between your starting point and the spot where you are standing regardless of the length of that single step. Therefore, according to your logic, how were you able to take a single step in order to have traversed infinite segments?

[We_Are_VENOM]

So let me rephrase the question...if I were counting all of the segments in numerical order with ever step, and I stopped counting once I arrived at the street corner, which number would represent the "corner segment"?

Your first step traverses infinite segments between your starting point and the spot where you are standing regardless of the length of that single step. Therefore, according to your logic, how were you able to take a single step in order to have traversed infinite segments?

If I can traverse an infinite amount of segments, then I should be able to COUNT each segment that I traversed.

So how is it that I can traverse infinite segments with no problem with a single step...but I am unable to reach a single step if I count all of the segments between the first and second step?

[JoeyKnothead]

So let me rephrase the question...if I were counting all of the segments in numerical order with ever step, and I stopped counting once I arrived at the street corner, which number would represent the "corner segment"?

Your first step traverses infinite segments between your starting point and the spot where you are standing regardless of the length of that single step. Therefore, according to your logic, how were you able to take a single step in order to have traversed infinite segments?

If I can traverse an infinite amount of segments, then I should be able to COUNT each segment that I traversed.

So how is it that I can traverse infinite segments with no problem with a single step...but I am unable to reach a single step if I count all of the segments between the first and second step?

Cause you'll spend all your time counting?

The logic is sound, anything that can be measured can be divided by an infinite number.