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" the Peano Axioms that underlie number theory essentially suggest that infinity needs to exist (as an abstraction) and yet cannot show that it actually must, a finite God never provides security against the problem of simply arguing for a bigger God. Thus, eventually, they go infinite with it, even if doing so amounts only to a rhetorical trick. That they make their deity (necessarily?) abstract in the process apparently falls between the cracks.  "

James A. Lindsay , Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly


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James A. Lindsay quote : the Peano Axioms that underlie number theory essentially suggest that infinity needs to exist (as an abstraction) and yet cannot show that it actually must, a finite God never provides security against the problem of simply arguing for a bigger God. Thus, eventually, they go infinite with it, even if doing so amounts only to a rhetorical trick. That they make their deity (necessarily?) abstract in the process apparently falls between the cracks.