I am new to the site, and much like a good book, I have been unable to stop reading here since I started.. anyway, I found this site from a link on one of the threads here...
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7273/GodExists.html
I've read through this, and I know that some of you more capable minds can help me with this. Postulate 4 and 5 really bother me,
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"4. History has its end in the present. (The future is not history.) So if the past was of infinite duration, an infinity came to its end. But this is a self-contradiction.".
Basically he's saying that an infinity as a concept is a paradox. He has a diagram of a timeline in his expansion of premise 4 that shows a timeline with 0 at present and infinity in the past and he says if we have an infinite past we can never reach the present. What are the fallacies of this argument, there is obviously at least one.
To me it seems as though he is attempting to grasp the concept of infinity, which is in fact uncomprehendable. anyway, just looking for some input to help me understand why this is wrong.