(June 7, 2014 at 12:32 am)orangebox21 Wrote:I think a more fascinating question is: how does timelessness work? What is it like to be outside of time? Presumably, god exists in some form that is capable of action and thought, and therefore capable of marking time. Was god just one second old when he began to create the universe?(June 5, 2014 at 1:08 pm)Tonus Wrote: Here's a mind-bender: if god is an eternal being, that means that he literally waited forever to create the Earth!Did time exist before the creation or was time created along with the material world? (Genesis 1:1 and 1:3-5)
If time didn't exist before creation, and eternity is a measure of time, then how can God have waited an eternity prior to creating the earth?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
