Re: God and Time

In a message dated 3/31/2006 1:33:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
alexanian@uncw.edu writes:
The worldlines indicate viewing whole histories of entities at an instant.
God is not temporal but He is outside our spacetime.

This is what Craig calls the "B" theory of time. He dismisses it out of
hand. I am not sure why.

Years ago I read a book that was a series of essays in a debate between Craig
and Quentin Smith (a non-theist). Craig and Smith are both A-theorists, and
they talked about it, so that was the little exposure I have on this topic.
Apparently, physicists tend to be B theorists and philosophers tend to be A
theorists. We won't get much understanding of Craig's argument unless we agree to
follow along with him in his A theory view. However, I too tend to think his
argument is bunk for reasons similar to what others have voiced.

Phil Metzger
Received on Sat Apr 1 07:58:45 2006