(April 12, 2015 at 2:06 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: How can the whole of time be eternal, when some of the past didn't always exist, and the present didn't always exist? By whole of time..I mean all of time that existed. It's obviously not eternal.[/quote]
There's nothing "obvious" about it. It's just how your ape brain happens to perceive time. You have no way of knowing whether time - or any point in time - is "eternal", or not. Trying to "prove" anything based on such assumptions is a fool's errand.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw