Salutatio William!
28-Jan-98, William Elliot wrote to Todd Henson
Subject: "Existence Exists"
>>>> Todd Henson on "Existence Exists"
TH>> The universe, by its nature, is necessarily finite. I explained
TH>> this to you before with the analogy of the half-infinite line,
TH>> which you never addressed, and couldn't counter.
WE> But a half infinite line [0, infinity) is of infinite length. So
WE> is the mirror image (-infinity, 0] which could be an universe that
WE> alway was but comes to an end. Negative integers a simple
WE> example: ... -n-1, -n, ... ,-2, -1, 0 while the more accustomed 0,
WE> 1, 2, ... ,n ,n+1, ... positive integers
Hey, I like that one. Have you seen my "spagetti noodle with only one
end" analogy? |)
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BTW, that razor is sharp enough to cut a fundies beliefs to shreds.
Dicere...
email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca)
Richard Meic
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