[shunyadragon]

Quote by: Captain Chaos Emergence is the process of complex things arising from simple things. We see this around us all the time.

Infinite emergence would be different from the emergence of life from simple forms to complex forms. The emergence of life is finite. Life had a beginning on this planet either in a natural manner or created by an outside source, usually described as God in English.

The emergence of life from non-life is called abiogenesis in science, if this is a natural process, biogenesis is the term often used if one believes life can only arise from life. I do not view emergence as a philisophical or theological problem on whether there is a divine source for life or a natural one as support for the fact as to whether ther is a God or not.

Scientists do not view abiogenesis as some spontaneous event in the primal soup of non-life without a cause. The scientist view this as a step by step process with natural causes. At present all the steps are not known, but the science of abiogenesis is a young science (less than 10 to 15 years) due to the lack of basic chemistry knowledge concerning genetics and possible origin scenarios.

If time is infinite, how can it not regress infinitely?

Contemporary cosmology would view 'infinite regress' as one limited human view of infinity looking backward. A true infinite in time would not have such a reference point. Regress or emergence require reference points or some marking reference and all this represents arbitrary human time references.