That such a paradox results from the assumption that the...

That such a paradox results from the assumption that the past is infinites shows that it is not possible that that assumption is correct. The past, it seems, cannot be infinite, because it is not possible that there be an infinite number of past moments. The Argument from Contingency The modal cosmological argument or “argument from contingency” is the argument from the contingency of the world or universe to the existence of God.

The argument from contingency is the most prominent form of cosmological argument historically. The classical statements of the cosmological argument in the works of Plato, of Aquinas and of Leibniz are all statements of the modal form of the argument. What…