By William Lane Craig
Time and Eternity bargains with tough matters in smooth physics and brings them into relation with conventional theological doctrines. Craig has performed an excellent paintings, and it truly is incredible that now the philosophy of faith is attractive with the philosophy of technological know-how to the good advantage of both.
--John R. Lucas
Fellow of Merton university, Oxford University
Time and Eternity bargains a entire dialogue of the issues within the suggestions of time and eternity at the foundation of a unprecedented familiarity with an enormous variety of fresh contributions to this factor from scientists and philosophers. The argument is sophisticated and specified. quite vital are the sections at the influence of the various types of relativity conception at the inspiration of time.... The ebook bargains a believable argument for a pragmatic notion of temporal strategy and for God's involvement within the temporal differences and strategies as a result of His presence in His creation.
--Wolfhart Pannenberg
Professor of Systematic Theology
Ludwig Maximilliens Universitaet-Muenchen, Germany
As a scientist doing theoretical learn in gravitational physics and quantum cosmology, i discovered Dr. Craig's considerate booklet hugely fascinating. He has conscientiously given arguments protecting numerous diversified viewpoints for every of the various concerns approximately time that he discusses, through opinions within which he emphasizes his personal opinion. examining Time and Eternity has pressured me to advance larger arguments for my very own reviews (which fluctuate significantly from Craig's).... i'm sure that Time and Eternity also will stimulate your considering this attention-grabbing topic and your appreciation for the God who created time as a part of the tremendous universe He has given us.
--Don N. Page
Professor of Physics and Fellow of the Cosmology and Gravitation application of the Canadian Institute for complex Research
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
William Lane Craig is one the best philosophers of faith and one of many best philosophers of time. during this publication, he combines his services in those parts to provide an unique, erudite, and available thought of time and God that may be of serious curiosity to either most people and students. it's a profitable adventure to learn via this terrific and well-researched ebook via probably the most discovered and artistic thinkers of our era.
--Quentin Smith
Professor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University
In Time and Eternity, William Lane Craig defends the impressive end that "God is undying with out production and temporal due to the fact that creation." Craig argues his case philosophically via conscientiously weighing proof for and opposed to divine temporality and personhood in gentle of dynamic as opposed to static theories of time and their warrants, in flip, in a Lorentzian interpretation of distinctive relativity and an goal, mind-independent idea of changing into, together with interesting tours into sizeable Bang cosmology and the philosophy of arithmetic. because the most recent in his sequence of ground-breaking books, Time and Eternity summarizes and extends Craig's prior technical arguments and conveys them to a extra common viewers. it's a must-read for a person heavily drawn to the matter of time and eternity in Christian philosophy.
--Robert Russell
Professor of Theology and Science
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Calif.
The nature of time is a constant resource of puzzlement either to technological know-how and in lifestyle. it's also an immense factor in theological understandings of the character of God. during this attention-grabbing publication, Professor Craig tackles this advanced set of issues in a transparent method. His dialogue of the interrelated clinical, philosophical, and theological concerns clears up many prior misconceptions and proposes a believable realizing of the relation of God to time and eternity that many will locate helpful.
--George Ellis
Professor of arithmetic and utilized Mathematics
University of Capetown
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32 Poincare here suggests that, in considering the notion of simultaneity, we instinctively put ourselves in the place of God and classify events as past, present, or future according to His time. Poincare does not deny that from God's perspective there would exist relations of absolute simultaneity. But he rejects the hypothesis as yielding a definition of simultaneity because we could not know such relations; such knowledge would remain the exclusive possession of God Himself. Clearly, Poincare's misgivings are relevant to a definition of simultaneity only if one is presupposing some sort of verificationist theory of meaning, as he undoubtedly was.
Using clocks thus synchronized, Einstein defines the time of an event as "the reading simultaneous with the event of a clock at rest and located at the position of the event, this clock being synchronous ... " 10 Now so far, the use of light as the signal plays no special role; one could have used bullets to synchronize distant clocks, so long as the bullets traveled with a uniform velocity. All this may seem quite unobjectionable and even humdrum. But if you think so, then you have been taken in.
Richard Healey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 141. 23 Ibid. , ed. F. : University of Illinois Press, 1977), 3-118. , the postulate of the constancy of the one-way velocity of light, an unprovable assumption which lies at the hean of STR). Worse, verificationism turned out to be self-refuting. For the statement "Only sentences which can in principle be empirically verified are meaningful" is itself not an empirically verifiable sentence and so is by its own standard meaningless! under such sustained attack that opposition to it has become almost orthodoxy in the philosophy of science.