tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920271329589936347.post7015240326608827620..comments2023-04-25T11:15:08.515-04:00Comments on Science & Religion Today: Did God Create Time?Heather Waxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15610116462331794810noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920271329589936347.post-13746580486907721682009-03-19T18:53:00.000-04:002009-03-19T18:53:00.000-04:00It is interesting that the latest recipient of the...It is interesting that the latest recipient of the Templeton Prize seems to have a very Kantian outlook with regards to modern science. That is to say, science can never penetrate ultimate reality, that world of things in themsleves, but must content itself with describing their appearances. Dr. D'Espagnat has an operationalist view of quantum thoery, that "quantum physics predicts what will be observed under certain circumstances"; modern science would seem to be the ability to predict specific measurements of appearances when certain conditions are met in the future. That effectively means trying to bring the future into the present, so again the question of time becomes an anomaly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920271329589936347.post-50949588006826891852009-03-16T20:40:00.000-04:002009-03-16T20:40:00.000-04:00There are experienced meditators that would say co...There are experienced meditators that would say conceptual time is a byproduct of thought. Thoughts most often consist of mental visualizations or verbalizations in the form of either prior experience or fantasies of future events. Most non-meditators have little or no experience of non-thinking and thus can only arrive at what they believe to be truth through a process of conceptualization (thoughts in the form of generalizations involving prior experience). Those meditators would say that living in the present, at least in the conceptual sense, transcends time. For obvious reasons, they would also say that this is an actualization, not a belief.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920271329589936347.post-27816139156233716292009-02-25T17:01:00.000-05:002009-02-25T17:01:00.000-05:00"Science, as knowledge of the world as it is in it..."Science, as knowledge of the world as it is in itself, is impossible."<BR/> <BR/>That is a well-known argument against science and objectivity.<BR/> <BR/>1. The point is, there is no other kind of consistent, coherent, rational understanding of perceived reality available to the human brain that has been as successful in its explanatory efforts or as proved to be as fruitful its applications knowledge thus acquired.<BR/> <BR/>2. What science does is to surmise the best it can how the world would/could be without the presence of the human mind in it.<BR/> It is that surmised world that one calls objective reality.<BR/> <BR/> 3. "Would the author care to define what he means by physical time?"<BR/> <BR/>In that world there was time before the emergence of Man on the planet, and there will be time after all of us (including all our descendents) have disappeared from this earth.<BR/>It is that time I can physical time: it is independent of you and me and is measured by chronometers which can continue to tick away even when and where no humans exist.<BR/>Conceptual time and experiential time arise when we come into physical time as conscious entities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920271329589936347.post-62503843372104166892009-02-24T20:49:00.000-05:002009-02-24T20:49:00.000-05:00St. Augustine asked what is time, and finding it d...St. Augustine asked what is time, and finding it difficult to answer started to wonder whether time is not a distentio mentis, that is, a product of the human mind itself. Emmanuel Kant was more forceful in showing it to be the form of our inner sense, so that it is the human mind that puts temporal order into the world as we know and percieve it. That is the way God created us. Physical time, in that case, is a product of the human mind as much as the objects we see, and therefore science, as knowledge of the world as it is in itself, is impossible. Would the author care to define what he means by physical time?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com