Cosmologic philosophy: what is time (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 21, 2017, 15:26 (2642 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: So you have an anthropomorphic God who watches his wristwatch? Did He make a series of universes and count time that way? What if He did nothing in eternity? Does time pass for Him? Only an evolutionary process has before and after as in our universe.

dhw: I have already agreed that the divisions of time are man-made. You don’t have to “count” time! You have agreed that time is a sequence of before and after. You can sit and do nothing for an hour, but before still changes into after. God can sit and do nothing for a billion chunks of eternity, but before still changes into after, and every time your God does or even thinks anything at all, there is a before and an after the deed or the thought. Unless you come up with a different definition, the only way your God can be “outside time” is if he is non-existent.

Let me put it another way. God exists outside human concepts of time, which you are still applying to him.