The first 3 words of the Bible are.."In the Beginning"...which, to me, suggests that time has a specific starting point. If this is true...what was in existence 5 seconds before "the beginning"? To me, it would be a logical impossibility for time to NOT exist. Without time, NOTHING would exist. I personally believe that time, along with space and matter, are all constants. Therefore, could the Bible's claim that there was a "beginning" be a logical fallacy???
2007-05-11 08:34:14 · 8 answers · asked by Adam G 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I wouldn't say it's a "fallacy". Just another poetic way of saying "Once upon a time". (Though for the record, I am not of a Biblical religion.)
You have to realize though that science discovered and proven some very strange things about "time" in the 20th century. Time is actually not a constant linear thing, as Newton assumed. Experiments have shown that it can be relative, especially when dealing with speeds close to the speed of light. "Space-time" was something that formed after the big bang. To ask what happened before the big bang is like asking what lies 10 miles north of the north pole.
2007-05-11 08:38:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good grief....God is,was and will always be. He is the constant. There is no future or past with Him. Things are just a constant state of being. He created time; day, night..all that. Before anything was, he said I AM. This is reiterated so many times in the bible...did you get stuck on the first sentence or what? Some things are written so that we can conceive them better....why would God inspire the words "in the beginning...?" Who knows and who cares dude....the question is are you SAVED?
2007-05-11 15:42:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Things can exist without time as long as nothing really moves. What if every configuration of the universe exists physically but is completely static and your mind flips through them like a movie projector does film? It would create the illusion of motion.
2007-05-11 15:38:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That would be way beyond our human understanding. Since time is all we know, trying to figure out what reality would be like without time would likely be impossible for us. For example, can you really think of a color that doesn't fit in with all the colors we know?
2007-05-11 15:38:55 · answer #4 · answered by Ievianty 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Modern quantum physics is rapidly beginning to realize that a grand unification theory might have to recognize that time is entirely illusionary.
2007-05-11 15:39:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if there is no time there can not be changes. if there are no changes there is no way to measure time. if time is changing then it is either changing within itself or changing in something else. i left it as an exercise to you to prove that either something was created from nothing or something was always there good night.
2007-05-11 16:34:29 · answer #6 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friday afternoon at work, when I see the sun shining outside.
2007-05-11 15:39:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
time doesn't exist, it's a concept.
2007-05-11 15:38:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋