It seems to me that nothing could create time because change can only occur within time (like movement can only occur within space). Anything outside of time would be unchanging and therefore, incapable of creating.
Can anyone explain how a deity could change/create outside of time?
2007-07-03 06:55:01 · 23 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't have a degree in philosophy or theoretical cosmology...Just my personal thoughts...
2007-07-03 06:56:09 · update #1
"The claim that a mysterious being did a mysterious thing in a mysterious way is at least as unsatisfying as admitting you don't know."
--George H. Smith
2007-07-03 06:58:02 · update #2
"Gawddidit" is the only explanation some people require. Kinda intellectually lazy, if you ask me (and you did).
2007-07-03 06:58:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
God didn't. The universe appeared in a burst of sheer randomness. But that randomness is a sure possibility, since outside of time nothing goes on, so there is a sure chance of time appearing at the same time as something goes on: the universe.
2007-07-06 09:44:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
those that have been infected by religion believe that their god created the universe,it says so in their book,and it was done in only 7 days.intelligent people believe differently thats why they spend millions,billions or trillions of dollars sending space probes into outer space to prove that the universe is indeed billions of years old and have not found any existance of a god.i personally could not care less where the universe came from,all i know is that it is here and i have to go to work tomorow.
2007-07-03 07:25:29 · answer #3 · answered by John S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find it interesting that unless something fits into our categories we dismiss it. For example, this question assumes that the kind of "creating" and "movement" one would speak of when dealing with God would be the same kind one would deal with in dealing with man. In other words, we have a tendency to limit God and what conditions must be like for him based on what they are like for us. But is this actually logical? If we are dealing with a different kind of existence, can we really put our limited experience unto that existence?
Personally, I don't subscribe to the theory that God, in order to transend time, must be outside of time (the unmoved mover of Aristotle). Rather, I tend to think that God transcends time by choosing to be present and immersed in time in such a complete way that God is present at all moments of time "at the same time", if you will.
In this way, really, God wouldn't have "created" the universe, but would be "creating" the universe, except that, for us (quad nos - pros ymas) limited beings who can only experience time as a string of linear events, the moment of time in which this happens is a past event, while for God it is a present reality.
2007-07-04 04:07:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are wrong, you cannot have movement without space or TIME. How else would you separate events/position?
We know from science that we can get energy from mass (by splitting atoms) but we also can turn energy into mass (very difficult even for just a few atoms).
God is the God of all forces in the universe and I believe he used a huge amount of his own energy to create all the atoms in the universe (big bang? possible but it was God's big bang).
Now, turning those atoms into a living being that can think and feel is beyond our science and understanding. I challenge any scientist to create life from raw elements. Only God can do that.
2007-07-03 07:04:03 · answer #5 · answered by sleepy 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
See the confessions of st. augustine for an explaination. many use these writings as the explainantion. However if the Bible is the authority on all things god and all others are heresy then I don't understand why someone's explaination which came 400 years after the supposed death of Christ is used as gospel
Quantrill's explainantion is comparable to Augustine's
2007-07-03 07:03:26 · answer #6 · answered by msuetonius 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a theory stating that our universe is essentially a bubble universe - one of many - that exists in a multiverse. Here is a link to an article in Salon.
2007-07-03 07:06:22 · answer #7 · answered by damnyankeega 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God spoke. God has his own timing... He is greater than our universe, He made it! He created our time, he made the sun and moon, he determined the Earth's rotation speed and our cycle around the sun. Time is subject to where you are, it is not a constant, and it can be stopped ( theoretically) if the earth stopped spinning, one side would always be in the sunlight (think the moon) how then would we divide our days? or years? God gave us the divisions, of Day and Night. I think our cultures have adapted to our latitudes.
2007-07-03 07:07:01 · answer #8 · answered by Christian in Kuwait 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Here's a question a pose to my students, (Note: the brackets are used because of semantics): "If [God - {who/what ever is meant by that term}] was the only thing in existence prior to 'creation' of the universe, then what did [he/she/it/that] 'create' the universe out of?" -
My amendment to the question after they ponder it for a while is to ad, "-other than [him/her/it/that]-self."
2007-07-03 07:18:43 · answer #9 · answered by Cognitive Dissident ÜberGadfly 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time as a universal constant does not exist.
There is no evidence for a god or gods.
2007-07-03 07:04:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time was created after the Big bang
G-d created the universe by contracting himself
2007-07-03 06:58:25 · answer #11 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋