Whether that cause is God is a metaphysical question, but what I have said so far is merely observation and common sense. Regresses must terminate in a cause of all things. It functions that way because of the governing system.īut there is no reason to think that there is an infinite regress with respect to design of the universe. It is measured, for example, in bytes, not mass or energy.Įven if the governing system were an infinite regress, following that regress would not help us understand why the governed system functions the way it does. For example, information is of a very different nature from matter. So the governing system can be of a quite different nature from the system it governs. Obviously, this is not the same sort of “over” as a higher officeholder would be, though it is just as real. Who is over the CEO? Well, the business and regulatory climate in which the company operates. For example, a company’s officeholders terminate at the highest point with the CEO. That is why there is no further regress within the series itself. Some series terminate because they depend on a higher or larger series at a certain point, one that governs them. There is no natural number below 1.* If you do not like that, you do not like reality. Perhaps it’s his legal training? Anyway, finally, I realized that the commenter who makes such an argument is confused about something: Series terminate, according to their nature.įor example, the number1 is the terminus of the natural numbers. I see that agnostic paralegal Dennis Jones agrees with me. At a crime scene, you don’t ask, “Who designed the perp?” Unless you are trying to sidetrack critical questions, of course. At the time, I said it was a silly argument. Presumably, they mean that if someone designed the designer, then who designed that someone. Here, in the ongoing “Who designed the esigner?” time sink, someone brought up the notion of infinite regress.
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