The answer is much more straightforward. Anything posing infinite immediately leads to absurdity.
I've never heard of the fallacy of absurdity, but maybe there should be one. If one posits anything infinite in time or space, one also posits what is impossible in such a scenario.
Will we get contradictions? No! But we will get absurdities.
For example, how many times must life have arisen in such a scenario. Answer an infinite number of times. If one disagrees, then why is life possible at least once? Is it not possible an endless number of times? This does not say how this life arose or what constitutes life but if one wants to limit it to DNA-based life, how many times did it arise? Answer an infinite number of times.
And if life is possible an infinite number of times, how often did such life generate intelligence similar or exactly how we understand the concept of intelligence? Answer an infinite number of times.
And what would limit the level of intelligence of these entities? The answer is that there would be infinite intelligences with unlimited knowledge and power. If one says that there would be a limit on intelligence and power, what would cause that limitation? Answer, there would be nothing causing that limit. In some cases but certainly not in all, when the number of cases is infinite.
In other words, we would not have one god but an infinite number of them. Is this argument absurd? Does the fallacy of absurdity exist? Maybe, it should!
So, because the concept of infinity of space and time leads to absurdities, we can eliminate infinity of any form of time and space. This means that our existence is finite. This leaves us seeking an explanation of what could have caused our existence in a limited time and space.
The answer is much more straightforward. Anything posing infinite immediately leads to absurdity.
I've never heard of the fallacy of absurdity, but maybe there should be one. If one posits anything infinite in time or space, one also posits what is impossible in such a scenario.
Will we get contradictions? No! But we will get absurdities.
For example, how many times must life have arisen in such a scenario. Answer an infinite number of times. If one disagrees, then why is life possible at least once? Is it not possible an endless number of times? This does not say how this life arose or what constitutes life but if one wants to limit it to DNA-based life, how many times did it arise? Answer an infinite number of times.
And if life is possible an infinite number of times, how often did such life generate intelligence similar or exactly how we understand the concept of intelligence? Answer an infinite number of times.
And what would limit the level of intelligence of these entities? The answer is that there would be infinite intelligences with unlimited knowledge and power. If one says that there would be a limit on intelligence and power, what would cause that limitation? Answer, there would be nothing causing that limit. In some cases but certainly not in all, when the number of cases is infinite.
In other words, we would not have one god but an infinite number of them. Is this argument absurd? Does the fallacy of absurdity exist? Maybe, it should!
So, because the concept of infinity of space and time leads to absurdities, we can eliminate infinity of any form of time and space. This means that our existence is finite. This leaves us seeking an explanation of what could have caused our existence in a limited time and space.