RE: A timeless being cannot create
July 17, 2019 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2019 at 4:27 pm by mcc1789.)
(July 17, 2019 at 4:28 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(July 17, 2019 at 12:55 am)mcc1789 Wrote: I think there's a logical argument to be made against God's existence here on the basis of incompatible properties. God is outside time, we're told. He's not only eternal (existing forever) but also unaffected by temporal changes. He is after all the creator too, and that includes time. Yet when something is created, it comes into being. That entails a previous instance where it didn't exist of course. Yet if time itself was created, that makes no sense. To speak of a time "before" time is meaningless. Moreover, how does a timeless being create while outside time (and space as well)? A creation involves a change in space and time. It's enough to see how this could be done by a lesser being. How though could it be with a timeless being? I suggest it's incoherent, and the very fact that things do exist shows that such a being (i.e. God) doesn't. What do you think?
Our understanding and our brain capacity cannot understand or interpret a universe outside the edges of the discovered universe. It doesn't mean nothing is there; but it means our minds cannot understand or translate things but in this primitive, basic way.
The future, the present and the past might exist at the same time
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/...belltitem2
Quote:So, is time just an elaborate mind trick? And more importantly - is time travel possible?
Dr. Miller's answer to that is "yes". Of course, just hypothetically, since we'd need to figure out first how to travel at "some reasonable percentage of the speed of light". Going to the past would entail using wormholes, like "short cuts through space-time".
Okay... I'm unclear on how that relates to this.
