Cosmologic philosophy: Egnor on Big Bang, etc. (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 12:17 (944 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: […] you wrote: “there is no before before the BB. Time didn’t exist. This was proven by Guth, Borde and Valenkin by mathematics years ago, presented by my books and here.”

dhw: You wrote: “I accept the definition of time as a sequence of events only when they exist in a BB that contains time, which by definition ours does and therefore possible/imaginary prior BB’s did.” Do you or do you not believe that it is POSSIBLE that your God may have created BBs before ours? If you think it is possible, then you do not believe that Guth & Co have proven that there was no ‘Before’ before our BB, and that time started with our BB.

DAVID: It is you inventing a disagreement with Guth, not me.

You therefore believe that Guth has proven that there was nothing before our BB and time did not exist. On the other hand, you also believe that your God existed before our BB and may have created other BBs, which would mean that time could have existed before our BB. But you see no clash between your two beliefs.