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2006-06-09 11:50:25 · 4 answers · asked by Oleg B 6 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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there is no way to prove anything, if you believe it, is it a lie?

2006-06-09 20:15:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Um, no.

There is no way to prove infinity. I mean, there are plenty of math proofs along the line of "if x approaches infinity", but that's approaching, not infinity.

We don't know space is infinite, it may well not be. We don't know time is infinite. We don't know if particles can get infinitely small. And frankly, our arguments that God is infinite (omnipotent, etc), don't make a lot of sense.

Best easy to understand argument I heard on the subject was a Sesame Street take off for computer scientists.

Kermit the Frog was interviewing a professor who had invented an infinite cookie machine. It was supposed to generate an infinitely long cookie.

How long would it take to prove there was an infinitely long cookie? An infinite amount of time of course.

How long would it take to prove there was NOT an infinitely long cookie?

It does not matter where you start, it is where you end. The infinitely long cookie can start at any point in time. It just can never end. So you cannot prove an infinitely long cookie does not exist in less than an infinite amount of time.

To get a little less silly, We know there was a beginning of the Universe, we don't know if there was an infinite amount of time before the creation of the universe, and there is no way we can know.

So let's say you started counting to infinity using a supercomputer 10 years ago. You have a huge number now. Lets day I start now. You have a huge head start. It doesn't matter, I can map all your numbers onto mine, no matter if you are counting a billion times faster than I am. Both sets of numbers are infinite.

So, how do you formulate infinity in truth? The truth set can never be evaluated while time exists.

Infinity is a concept, not a truth. A belief. Sort of like you-know-who.

2006-06-09 20:23:06 · answer #2 · answered by diogenese19348 6 · 0 0

I agree, it's reversed. Truth is formulated in infinity, even if you define truth as the Deity that you give your life to i.e. Christians believe that Christ is The Way, The Truth and The Life. He described Himself as Truth, and is Infinite as well. And we will not have infinity in happiness without Him. But in terms of this world, truth is finite, and would not contain infinity, but infinity does contain truth. So it depends on the truth you reference.

2006-06-09 19:11:14 · answer #3 · answered by Earl G 2 · 0 0

....no, because Truth is finite...

2006-06-09 19:01:20 · answer #4 · answered by CHARLES E 1 · 0 0

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