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    It is not the case that The world is not eternal.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Time is predicated of the body of the cosmos.
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    • 2.Nothing predicated of the body of the cosmos can be infinite.
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    • 3.If time is finite, the world is not eternal.
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    Reasons Against

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    Reason against 1 of 2
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    • 1.Every being whose existence is merely possible requires an external cause to actualize it, as al-Kindi and later Avicenna maintained.
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    • 2.A causally dependent series cannot regress infinitely without a first uncaused cause, since an infinite regress explains nothing.
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    • 3.Therefore, the cosmos, being contingent and causally dependent, must have originated at a finite point rather than existing eternally.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.An actually infinite series of past events cannot be traversed to reach the present moment, as Philoponus argued against Aristotle.
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    • 2.The present moment exists, so the series of past events must be finite, entailing a temporal beginning to the world.
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