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I will first divulge that I do not belong to any religious group.
Originally posted by SpearMint
For it to be plausible that God made the universe, God has to be able to exist without time. This is probably dismissed commonly with "he can", but when you understand what time actually is it seems impossible.
Originally posted by Fineousstitch
you're just proving that it is possible... Why focus on a god? Hell, we could use the same thought process to determine that vampire bunny rabbits are possible.
Originally posted by SpearMint
Originally posted by daaskapital
Originally posted by SpearMint
Originally posted by daaskapital
Originally posted by SpearMint
For it to be plausible that God made the universe, God has to be able to exist without time. This is probably dismissed commonly with "he can", but when you understand what time actually is it seems impossible.
"Time" as we understand it is just a human construction...
How can you say that without knowing for sure how time works? We observe and we learn, so no, it's not a human construction.
No one knows for sure what time is. Time is created purely on speculation and assumptions on behalf of the Human species.
It isn't really 1:14 AM where i am...as this specific "time" was created by humans. Prehistoric humans never used time as we do today, therefore, time as we know it now is a human construction.
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I'm not talking about our numerical representation of time, that's just how we measure it.
I'm talking about time itself.
The 24 hour day is a human creation, time is not.edit on 24-8-2012 by SpearMint because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SpearMint
Originally posted by Americanist
Originally posted by KingAtlas
reply to post by daaskapital
I think the "time" he was referring to was the correlation between space and time, and that space-time does not exist outside a universe. (although I could be wrong)
It could be argued that the Universe is the expansion of space-time itself.
Although one must be careful of the thin grey line between correlation and causation.
edit on 24-8-2012 by KingAtlas because: forgot an quotation marke, and clarity
Time does not exist, period. The reality is... We experience life as an assembly/ reassembly point - point (e.g. the displays on monitors/ flat screens set to various frame rates). We are a display of vectors while 'digging' streams of consciousness.
If that is true, then time is that "frame rate". Time exists no matter what it's definition is, we can clearly observe it, and we can observe time being slowed as the observer (a watch) increases in speed. We know time exists and we know it's relative.
Originally posted by micpsi
The mathematical nature of the divine paradigm has been revealed:
smphillips.8m.com...
Recently, the sacred geometries or symbolic glyphs at the heart of various religions have been proved in a rigorous, mathematical way to be isomorphic to one another. Given they originated thousands of miles and years apart, this unexpected discovery has profound implications for the perennial question concerning the existence of transcendental intelligence and its mystical illumination of human minds throughout the ages. This is given even more significance by the fact that the group mathematics behind superstring theory, which is based upon SO(32) and E8xE8, has been found to be embodied in these sacred geometries, as well as in the five Platonic solids (see Article 55).
The research linked to above is very challenging and requires much study, so don't expect instant understanding. If, however, you make the effort, you will discover stunning evidence of beautiful, mathematical coherence and design that transcends rational explanation.