Cosmologic philosophy: what is time (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, January 23, 2017, 20:33 (2861 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: God existing in eternity is unchanging.

dhw: I don’t know where you get your information from. God never learns, God never experiences anything, doesn’t realize that when he creates something there is a before and after, and when he thinks something there is a before the thought and after the thought.

DAVID: No time passes.

So God doesn’t realize there is a before and after.

If religions' suppositions are correct God knows the past the present and the future. time doesn't have to pass for him to recognize all parts of time.

DAVID: The universe is started and time begins.

dhw: God starts the universe and doesn’t realize there was a before the universe and an after the universe. And you also happen to know that God never did or thought a darned thing before he started the universe.

Pf course He recognizes His progress in His plans, but knowing what will happen does not create a passage of time for Him.

DAVID: Simple concept.

dhw: Perhaps you should give me your own definition of time.

You've made Him human. My definition is just as we have agreed, a human recognition of a passage from moment to moment, a series of 'nows'.