Archive for March, 2007
It’s good to know these things
Tuesday, March 13th, 20074:32 pm
“A man touches his hat but does not look more than briefly at a woman to whom he gives up his seat. He then stands as far away from her as possible and does not look in her direction.”
-Amy Vanderbilt’s New Complete Book of Etiquette
God and Time Part VI: The Argument From Divine Omniscience
Monday, March 12th, 20075:57 pm
Another argument against divine timelessness is that God could not be completely omniscient were God not in time. Pike argues that some true statements describe one’s temporal position (e.g. “Today is the 10th of December”), and so could not be known by a timeless being (95). Sally knows that yesterday she ate a banana. Since […]
God and Time Part V: The Argument From God’s Real Relation to The World
Saturday, March 10th, 200711:44 pm
Perhaps a more promising argument against divine timelessness is the argument from God’s real relation to the temporal world. Craig formulates such an argument:
Either God existed prior to creation or He did not. Suppose He did. In that case, God is temporal, not timeless, since to exist prior to some event is to be in […]