Earlier this year, I addressed a reader question about time and how God relates to it. Talking about time can be tricky, because our subjective experience of the passing of time is so fundamental that it's difficult to get any distance for a new perspective. We just know that time advances continuously from the past into the future at 1 second per second, and everything exists and happens in the liminal present between the two. So it's only natural to imagine God must have some kind of similar experience, at the very … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Down the Rabbit-Wormhole
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Science in Review: Is God Outside of Time?
Housekeeping: This is my final response to the reader question on time (earlier responses here, here, and here). A follow-up to Kevin Birth's reflections on time and Lent is forthcoming. HC asks: How would you describe time? How do you make sense of God as a being that is outside of time, and yet has created it, interacts with his creations that are confined to it, and at one specific point in history entered into time in the person of Jesus? God is frequently described as "outside of time." Growing up in Christian … [Read more...] about Science in Review: Is God Outside of Time?
Science Reader Question: What’s a Few Minutes Between Friends?
HC asks: How would you describe time? Last week I went a bit esoteric, musing that time is the feature of the universe that makes forgiveness necessary. Now let's try something a bit more basic. Time is the feature of the universe that we measure with clocks. As banal as that statement may be, it is possibly the only statement about time one can make with certainty. Time allows us to decide which events come before which other events and how rapidly or slowly the second followed after the first. And since time is … [Read more...] about Science Reader Question: What’s a Few Minutes Between Friends?