(April 20, 2009 at 11:23 pm)athoughtfulman Wrote: I'm with frodo here in that I think it is rash to apply our idea of linear time to a supposed god.
If god did exist (what the theist proposes) then his timeline wouldn't exist in the form of a line. Imagine drawing a straight line on a piece of paper; our time is the line, and god's is the paper.
Just had a look at that timeline on Pharyngula - impressive. Gives an idea of the stupidity to think god could exist in a day-by-day sense.
Well perhaps but I believe more recent hypotheses are that time isn't linear anyway or is at least two directional and it's just our perception of time that is.
The problem, of course, with the god-made alternate universes idea is that the Christian god is understood to be all-knowing, all-powerful etc. etc. and as such wouldn't need to see how other universes developed because it knows already (something that screws the free-will argument as well).
Kyu
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