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edmc^2
How do we know that time always existed?
Because time "itself" is timeless.
Subnatural
edmc^2
How do we know that time always existed?
Because time "itself" is timeless.
That is no answer. You are simply repeating the question, right? "Time is timeless because it is." This is what you are saying. Circular logic.
edmc^2
spy66
reply to post by edmc^2
For example, we know that spacetime is both uncreated and infinite, that "IT" always existed. Yet why is this NOT proof enough of the existence of an incorporeal uncreated and infinite being - God?
I would say that Space is the only dimension that cant have been created. IT must have always existed and is the only dimension that will always exist. Time on the other hand must have been formed. But time is a big topic. It takes time to form time. It tok time to form Our universe.
Without a infinite empty Space there would not be a Place to form time.
Thus "time" is "space and "space" is "time" - one can't exist without the other - uncreated always existing.
We accept this to be a fact and understand them to be a fact. Yet, why is it hard to accept the concept of of an "Eternal Being" - an uncreated, incorporeal Entity we call God?
edmc^2
Subnatural
edmc^2
How do we know that time always existed?
Because time "itself" is timeless.
That is no answer. You are simply repeating the question, right? "Time is timeless because it is." This is what you are saying. Circular logic.
No. I'm just saying that there's no fixed point to measure it when it comes to time/ space continuum.
Thus time is timeless. For instance, where is time before the "big-bang"?
spy66
edmc^2
Subnatural
edmc^2
How do we know that time always existed?
Because time "itself" is timeless.
That is no answer. You are simply repeating the question, right? "Time is timeless because it is." This is what you are saying. Circular logic.
No. I'm just saying that there's no fixed point to measure it when it comes to time/ space continuum.
Thus time is timeless. For instance, where is time before the "big-bang"?
The time we observe today didnt exist before the Big Bang. Nothing of what we see and observe today existed before the Big Bang.
The Space which makes up Our universe is all within a expanding singularity. The Space outside the singularity must be very Close to a constand or a absolute vacuum. It must be because of how we observe Our universe to be equally expanding in all directions.
God is this absolute empty Space. God can not be anything else. Because nothing can be stronger or weaker than the absolute. A better way to say it, is that nothing can be more neutral than the absolute empty Space.
There is no evidence to suggest that the universe has a purpose or direction. That is just wishful thinking on the part of humans who want there to be more to everything than what they can currently see, hear, and touch. That isn't to say that there isn't a purpose or direction to the universe, just that we aren't aware of one and have no evidence of such.
"When we looked at the dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda, we expected to find them buzzing around randomly, like angry bees around a hive.
"Instead, we've found that half of Andromeda's satellites are orbiting together in an immense plane, which is more than a million light years in diameter but only 30 000 light years thick. These dwarf galaxies have formed a ring around Andromeda."
"This was completely unexpected – the chance of this happening randomly is next to nothing. It really is just weird," -- said Professor Lewis.
For many years they looked around the solar system. Mercury and Venus were too hot. Mars and the outer planets were too cold. Only Earth was just right for life, they thought. Our planet has liquid water, a breathable atmosphere, a suitable amount of sunshine. Perfect.
rhinoceros
edmc^2
If space-time exist and that it had no beginning and end, even uncreated, why not God?
Because you're trying to explain away a complex thing with an infinitely more complex thing. You think it's unlikely that the Universe just came to be? Did you ever wonder, just what are the odds for something much more complex, like some Universe creating entity, just becoming. The God-believing type usually cop out from this by saying that God always was, but again, a far more simple explanation would be that the potential for the becoming of the Universe always was. When it comes to Occam's razor, God always loses.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
The God-believing type usually cop out from this by saying that God always was
randyvs
reply to post by edmc^2
Everything in the universe exists because of something. So to say the whole universe exists
because of nothing would be ignoring the evidence. And if we simply do not ignore the evidence?
Then there can be only answer as to why the universe exists.
The answer would be our concept of deity. After all why would there even be such a concept in
existence. I once new a man who said, " If the river makes noise ? There must be something in it ".
OP's right, it's a simple question. And the answer has been purpousely complicated.
Well as you can see - deniers are running out of options but to accept the fact - painful for them as it may seem - that if space-time exist (and IT does exist) and that it's uncreated, with no end and no beginning, they have no valid reason but to accept the fact that God MUST also exist.
edmc^2
For example, we know that spacetime is both uncreated and infinite, that "IT" always existed.
Yet why is this NOT proof enough of the existence of an incorporeal uncreated and infinite being - God?
In other words, why accept/believe that spacetime exist but not God?
How could spacetime exist and not God?
As the Scripture explicitly stated:
If at some point in the past, the Universe was once close to a singular state of infinitely small size and infinite density, we have to ask what was there before . . . We have to face the problem of a Beginning" -- Sir Bernard Lovell
randyvs
Everything in the universe exists because of something.
So to say the whole universe exists because of nothing would be ignoring the evidence. And if we simply do not ignore the evidence?
Then there can be only answer as to why the universe exists.
The answer would be our concept of deity. After all why would there even be such a concept in
existence.
I once new a man who said, " If the river makes noise ? There must be something in it ".
OP's right, it's a simple question. And the answer has been purpousely complicated.
edmc^2
spy66
edmc^2
Subnatural
edmc^2
How do we know that time always existed?
Because time "itself" is timeless.
That is no answer. You are simply repeating the question, right? "Time is timeless because it is." This is what you are saying. Circular logic.
No. I'm just saying that there's no fixed point to measure it when it comes to time/ space continuum.
Thus time is timeless. For instance, where is time before the "big-bang"?
The time we observe today didnt exist before the Big Bang. Nothing of what we see and observe today existed before the Big Bang.
The Space which makes up Our universe is all within a expanding singularity. The Space outside the singularity must be very Close to a constand or a absolute vacuum. It must be because of how we observe Our universe to be equally expanding in all directions.
If what you're saying is true:
"The time we observe today didnt exist before the Big Bang. Nothing of what we see and observe today existed before the Big Bang."
Are you saying then that time / space never existed and that only "vacuum" existed (before the big-bang)?
If this is the case, does this mean that vacuum didn't contain time/space?
It can't be because vacuum itself IS time and space.
You can't take it out of the equation. Like I said, spacetime always existed, never created. IT has no end nor a beginning.
Yet it exist! And we're in IT.
edit on 12-11-2013 by edmc^2 because: (no reason given)
edmc^2
reply to post by spy66
God is this absolute empty Space. God can not be anything else. Because nothing can be stronger or weaker than the absolute. A better way to say it, is that nothing can be more neutral than the absolute empty Space.
"God is this absolute empty Space" - Can't be for the simple fact that Intelligence is present. And like I've said before, where there's intelligence there's a mind behind "IT". Where there's a mind there's a "body" - a "body" - an "Entity".
Thus if such a mind-boggling phenomena as spacetime continuum can exist and it does exist, then why not an uncreated incorporeal Being - God?
edmc^2
To all unbelievers, here's a simple yet profound question that merits an honest answer.
That is:
Should not the existence of "something" uncreated and infinite proves the existence of "someone" uncreated and infinite - God?
For example, we know that spacetime is both uncreated and infinite, that "IT" always existed. Yet why is this NOT proof enough of the existence of an incorporeal uncreated and infinite being - God?
In other words, why accept/believe that spacetime exist but not God?
How could spacetime exist and not God?
As the Scripture explicitly stated:
"Lift your eyes up to heaven and see who created all these— the one who leads out their vast array of stars by number, calling them all by name— because of his great might and his powerful strength — and not one is missing." - Isaiah 40:26 ISV
What Is Your Conclusion?
Our Universe
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ----------------↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
Had No ---------------- Had a
Beginning? -----------------Beginning?
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓-------------↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
Without Cause ----------Was Caused
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ---------↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
By Some THING --------By Some ONE
Eternal ?------------------ Eternal?
What say you?
If at some point in the past, the Universe was once close to a singular state of infinitely small size and infinite density, we have to ask what was there before . . . We have to face the problem of a Beginning" -- Sir Bernard Lovell
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