2007-08-05 08:23:55 · 13 answers · asked by Diesel Weasel 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nope, time was created for us so we could have a framework to work within.
2007-08-05 08:33:42 · answer #1 · answered by Freedspirit 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To take the fairly simple, Newtonian sense of time, it is the interval between events. Events took place before there were humans to observe events and to perceive the flow of time. Therefore time existed.
But there are more sophisticated views of time, and if you take that view, then no, before there were humans, there was no time.
From the Wikipedia article on Time:
"One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed, and hence is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time.[1]
A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number). Within this structure, humans sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects. In this second view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects "move through", or that is a "container" for events. This view is in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz[2] and Immanuel Kant,[3][4] in which time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the mental measuring system."
2007-08-05 15:35:36 · answer #2 · answered by Austin W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before humans, dinasaurs roamed the earth, and everything was made by God, in his own time.
May God bless you.
2007-08-05 17:14:00 · answer #3 · answered by kathleen m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time and space were created at the exact same moment. Ever hear of the Big Bang?
2007-08-05 15:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by TodboT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 earth days.
2007-08-05 16:44:20 · answer #5 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no woman is there to hear, is the man still wrong?
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2007-08-05 21:57:54 · answer #6 · answered by Freesumpin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well yeah. If dinos existed before us then yes.
2007-08-05 15:28:27 · answer #7 · answered by Miguel G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think...it's always existed, just not in the way humans perceive it.
2007-08-05 23:34:13 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the earth was created in six days
time was before earth itself
2007-08-05 15:31:04 · answer #9 · answered by inverted_ladder 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If a tree dies in the woods and no one knows.. did it die?
2007-08-05 15:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by ms.turry 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋