gordon brown wrote:
> Walter,
>
> God's perspective on time is very different from ours. (See Psalm 90:4 and
> II Peter 3:8.) Your question seems to reflect a human perspective.
To the contrary: I envision God as being external to both space and time. I am
taking only about his creation of space-time.
Walt
>
>
> Gordon Brown
> Department of Mathematics
> University of Colorado
> Boulder, CO 80309-0395
>
> On Sun, 26 May 2002, Walter Hicks wrote:
>
> >
> > If we take the viewpoint that Jesus, is the Word and He created this
> > universe as
> > implied by the Gospel of John, then we can well ask why billions of
> > years elapsed
> > to achieve this? Certainly the Bible never implied that, and it
> >only the recent
> > interpretation of (Christian) scientists who say that:"If the
> > universe appears to
> > be 15 billion years old, then God must have created it 15 billion
> > years ago." So
> > why must this be so? If it is only the last several thousand
>years that are
> > important to God, why need He need to use up 15 billion years of
> > space time to do
> > it ---- when a few thousand years are adequate? We don't know much
> > about how God
> > might do things but it is not difficult to believe that
>thousands of years of
> > space time are far more economical to create than billions of years
> > worth. (That
> > makes for an awful lot of rather useless time and space just to keep some
> > scientific purists happy.).
-- =================================== Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>In any consistent theory, there must exist true but not provable statements. (Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic If you have already found the truth without it. (G.K. Chesterton) ===================================
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