In Reply to: Re: Hillbert's Hotel posted by OT2 on November 05, 2006 at 17:53:47:
Interesting website. That's great you have the degrees. Can I ask you about something you say in your comments, because I don't want misinterpret you, and I don't want to jump to any conclusions and say you sound condescending, so, can you please explain the tone of: "to trot out" ... and "is very humorous too me"?
By the way, I first heard about Hillbert's Hotel from a Christian, Bible believing, theologian. (On a BBC radio documentary. I don't remember the name.) I'm not a mathemetician, I'm not very clever when it comes to science, but I do believe in infinite eternal realities, and when I heard the Hilbert Hotel idea I thought that's a clever way of giving infinity a mathematical description.
Craig himself doesn't seem to find Hilbert's idea humorous either. On the website article he says that Hilbert's Hotel is "a product of the mind of the great German mathematician, David Hilbert." He isn't condenscending in his tone towards Mr. Hilbert, nor towards the Hilbert Hotel idea, and he uses the idea as a backdrop for presenting his own arguements which sound really great to me.
My time's run out. I don't have time to study the Craig article in depth right now, but it look pretty good. (Next month I won't be as busy.)