Eternal (lives for ever within time) — Devans99
Yes sorry, my original question would of been better expressed as: Is god Everlasting (within time) or Timeless (outside of time) — Devans99
Yes sorry, my original question would of been better expressed as: Is god Everlasting (within time) or Timeless (outside of time) — Devans99
But God existing within time and space gives us the old regression problem of who created time and space (if it were not god)? — Devans99
the act of creation of TIME does not require TIME. — Devans99
Why is there anything at all instead of just nothingness? For anything to exist at all, causality must of been violated (unmoved mover) and causality is a feature of time. — Devans99
An explanation that posits the existence of objects without explaining where the objects came from is not complete. — Devans99
I’d also argue if we give any of these objects a mind then it has an infinite personal history which is impossible. — Devans99
In addition, those objects require motion to achieve anything useful. What imparted the first motion to be one of these objects? — Devans99
You are still invoking infinity in the time dimension when talking about the physical universe; it leads to paradoxical problems like everything that can exist must of existed and we should all be Bolzman brains... — Devans99
That was a joke one of my schoolfriends told me back in about 1975. His answer wasThis reminds me of the question: "What is the difference between a duck?" — angslan
And by the time we've done this we are so far away from wherever we started that the entire question and answer are just abstract, fictional constructs that don't tell us anything except how creative we can be. — angslan
So I guess where I'm going is - why do we think that this is a meaningful question? — angslan
To deny the question as meaningful, as you are doing is what is a fictional construct. Just because you have no interest in this type of question doesn't mean that it is not an important question. — Metaphysician Undercover
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