The following is taken from a YouTube comment thread:
So precious how theists all try to claim an infinite regress is impossible even though it isn’t but here’s this thing about human linguistics that makes even the idea of it absurd.
So obviously the limitations of human language prove an infinite regress is impossible.
Me to Atheist
Here, the question is not whether an infinite regress is possible or impossible. An infinite regress is non-observable and therefore, unscientific.
Below I am going to present an infinite regress of some sort. Please tell me how you will convince others that there is really such an infinite regress in nature.
Let us start from the earth.
Earth exists within the solar system.
The solar system exists within the Milky Way galaxy.
The Milky Way galaxy exists within the local cluster of galaxies. This cluster again exists within some super-cluster of galaxies. This super-cluster of galaxies exists within the universe that contains trillions of other galaxies.
The universe exists within the multiverse that contains trillions of other universes.
Cosmologists usually stop at this level; they do not go beyond the multiverse.
But there is no binding that we would have to stop here at the multiverse level at all.
So we would say that this multiverse exists within some super-multiverse that contains trillions of other multiverses.
Then we would again say that this super-multiverse exists within some super-duper multiverse that contains trillions of other super-multiverses.
Then we would again say that this super-duper multiverse exists within some supra-multiverse that contains trillions of other super-duper multiverses.
Then we would again say that this supra-multiverse exists within some supra-dupra multiverse that contains trillions of other supra-multiverses.
And so on and on ad infinitum.
We know earth exists. Therefore, there will also be an infinite regress of this sort:
Universe – Multiverse – Super-multiverse – Super-duper multiverse – Supra-multiverse – Supra-dupra multiverse – up to infinity.
If you are in favor of the infinite regress here, then you will have to give evidence that there is really such an infinite regress in nature. Will you please tell me how you, or anybody from the scientific community, will give that evidence?
Atheist to Me
That’s idiotic… The whole idea that you can’t have an infinite regress is an artifact of human linguistics and people deliberately misunderstanding Zeno’s paradox.
I don’t have to prove shit. You can feel free to try to disprove an infinite regress but I’m not going to waste my time playing with you fundies. Do your own god damn homework for once!
Better yet, provide some actual reason why it should be impossible.
Me to Atheist
Your comment has very nicely exposed the double standard of atheists.
In the case of God, you people will say that only logic and arguments are not sufficient; some concrete evidence is required.
But in the case of the infinite regress, you will forget your own dictum. Here, you will say that logic and arguments are sufficient; no evidence is required and nothing is to be proved.
In the case of the infinite regress, you atheists are blind believers.
You atheists are hypocrites.
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