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To: D-fendr; P-Marlowe; scripter; Alamo-Girl

The Book of Job indicates there was a "before" creation. Very clearly, actually.

This whole "time" thing is so sticky, however, that it's best to acknowledge a wide range of views on it, AND a difficulty with its complexities.


10,535 posted on 02/15/2007 11:02:03 AM PST by xzins
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Yes, we only get glimpses of eternity at most in this life.


10,537 posted on 02/15/2007 11:03:35 AM PST by D-fendr
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To: xzins
The Book of Job indicates there was a "before" creation. Very clearly, actually.

Was that before time. If so, did everything happen at once? ;-)

10,543 posted on 02/15/2007 11:13:31 AM PST by scripter ("If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone." Romans 12:18)
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To: xzins; D-fendr; P-Marlowe; scripter
This whole "time" thing is so sticky, however, that it's best to acknowledge a wide range of views on it, AND a difficulty with its complexities. Indeed.

That there was a beginning of time (space/time) was the most theological statement ever to come out of science.

Measurement of the cosmic microwave background radiation showed that the universe is expanding, therefore space and time had a real beginning, i.e. big bang theory which is nearly universally accepted.

That inflationary model demands it - and no physical cosmology defeats it (multi-verse, multi-world, ekpyrotic, cyclic, hesitating, imaginary time, etc.) For all their efforts, all these models have merely extended the beginning to an undetermined prior event. And all of them rely on pre-existing geometry for that event. Time is geometric.

In the beginning, God created...

The bottom line is causation. In the absence of time, events cannot occur. In the absence of space, things cannot exist.

Causation requires geometry (space/time) - there must be an uncaused cause of causation, i.e. God the Creator.

10,546 posted on 02/15/2007 11:14:53 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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