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PaladInChrist · 06-12-2003, 11:35 AM

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Originally posted by Unbeliever
I've never understood how God (or anything else, for that matter) could exist outside of time. How could he ever do anything at all? Any action requires time in order to be accomplished. There would have to be a "before the action" and an "after the action", wouldn't there? The same applies to any decision he might make, so he could never have decided to create the universe. Hence there would have to be time. The whole concept of being "outside of time" is meaningless, nothing but sophistry.

Hmmm, well I believe Hawking proposed something similiar to our "Eternal Now" concept of a pre-time, in order to escape the problem of time/space being dependent on each other, and just poofing into existence one day.

Jobar · 06-13-2003, 06:14 AM

How exactly can these cycles of universes regress infinitely back in time?

IF that were the case, we would never even exist due to the fact that an infinite set can not be traversed.

Paladin, meet Zeno. Zeno, PaladInChrist. You two should get to know each other better. After a while, I'll introduce you both to Sir Isaac Newton, OK?

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06-13-2003, 06:14 AM	#32
Jobar Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: secularcafe.org Posts: 9,525	How exactly can these cycles of universes regress infinitely back in time? IF that were the case, we would never even exist due to the fact that an infinite set can not be traversed. Paladin, meet Zeno. Zeno, PaladInChrist. You two should get to know each other better. After a while, I'll introduce you both to Sir Isaac Newton, OK?

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