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Time Is On My Side on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:58:11 PM
Believe what you may for no reason at all but that is not science. Believe in "Inteligent Design" because it is the only consistently logical possibility. The following is my attempt to get you to think logically about the origin of all things.
The facts, simply stated:
1) Time Exists.
2) Time could not have always existed.
3) Time must have been created.
4) The creator of Time created all things
The following are the logical proofs for the previous points.
1) This is the easiest argument to make, although many people get confused with the difference between the existence of time and the measuring of time. To state that time exists is not a reference to our ability to measure the passing of time. It is stating an undeniable universal truth; Time exists. If you are not in agreement with me just think about your last bong hit for a few “moments” and maybe it will sink in. Time exists whether we measure it or not.
2) Time did not always exist: This one is my favorite facts. This is easy to prove but difficult to believe. Sorry to those of you that refuse to believe in anything being black and white. It is not possible for any grey area here. The fact is that either time has existed forever or it has not. If time has existed forever then there must be a point in time that is an infinite number of time units (you choose; I’ll use days) ago in the past. That would suggest that prior to today an infinite number of days has already past. This is not logically possible and therefor we are left with only the following 2 options:
a) infinity is finite (False)
b) time could not have always existed and there is a starting moment for Time, let’s call it the "Dawn of Time".
3) Time must have been created: Since logic dictates that time has a starting point then something that can exist outside of time must have caused time to come into existence. We know that matter exists and matter cannot exist outside of time. All matter is composed of atoms. An electron spinning around the nucleus of an atom would require time; granted not much time but given time does not exist atoms could not exist. No motion of any kind can occur outside of time. We know that motion is measured as an object moving from one point to another within the construct of time. Even if some physical thing composed of some kind of frozen atoms, exsited in a timeless realm, it could not be here at one point and there in another because that would require time. Some such physical thing would be "Frozen in Time" totally inert. Just as motion is not possible outside of time, random events are not possible either. If time does not exist then a random event cannot occur. A random event must occur. Anything that occurs is already framed in a reference of time. The concept of "It just occurred" indirectly references a point of time prior to the "occurrence" which can only be possible with the existence of time. In a realm without time nothing can simply occur.
4) Since normal matter cannot exist outside of time and we know that matter is a constant, then we can logically conclude that matter is a constant that exists only within the realm of time and the creation of time included the creation of all matter. Or maybe the creation of all matter formed the time required for it to exist in (What came first the chicken or the egg?). The logical truth is that those two things must go hand in hand. Since matter cannot exist without time, we can conclude that whatever caused time to begin also caused all matter currently in existence to exist, but in the very least we must realize that none of the matter that exists could exists without time.
What exists outside of time? Without motion, matter or random occurance the only logical possibility left is that some ethereal entity that is not bounded within a realm of time created time by sheer thought. All we are left with is to ponder: “for what purpose”.
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