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    Philosophy of Time: Thoughts and Deliberations
    Philosophy of Time: Thoughts and Deliberations
    Philosophy of Time: Thoughts and Deliberations
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    Philosophy of Time: Thoughts and Deliberations

    By Domenic Marbaniang

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    Since H.G.Well’s Time Machine, humans have greatly marveled at the prospects of time-travel. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity has now experimentally established that time is a physical dimension to which space is intrinsically connected. The famous Twin Paradox suggests that if a twin brother is put in a spacecraft to travel at a speed somewhat approximate to the speed of light; he may return after 10 years to be 8 years younger than his twin brother who remained on the earth. That does raise theological questions with regard to time in connection to spiritual beings like angels. It certainly forces one to ask, seeing that the physical concept of time cannot be applied to immaterial beings, if it is valid to ask questions like “Why did God put the tree of knowledge in the garden if He knew Adam would sin?”

    In this volume, the goal is not to provide a systematic definition and overview of time, but to only consider the various issues connected with it. The volume is a collection of some writings related to this topic over a period of 7 years. The writings are as terse as they can be and, hopefully, will provide the reader with some data for further reflection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDomenic Marbaniang
    Release dateMar 22, 2014
    ISBN9781310665080
    Philosophy of Time: Thoughts and Deliberations
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    Domenic Marbaniang

    Domenic Marbaniang is Christian writer, musician, and minister.

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      Philosophy of Time - Domenic Marbaniang

      PHILOSOPHY OF TIME

      Thoughts and Deliberations

      Copyright 2014 Domenic Marbaniang

      Published by Domenic Marbaniang at Smashwords

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      Table of Content

      Preface

      A Tale of Something, Or Nothing, and God

      Time and Transcendence

      General Views of Time

      The Theory of Relativity

      Does God Know the Future: Epistemic Concerns and Rational Fideism

      Aristotle’s Temporal Logic and the Problem of Foreknowledge in Jesus’ Prediction of Peter’s Denial

      Aristotelian Determinism: A Solution

      Kant’s Theory of Space and Time

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      Preface

      Since H.G.Well’s Time Machine, humans have greatly marvelled at the prospects of time-travel. Of course, the very idea of time-travel has an intrinsic chronological inconsistency: for instance, time-travel might make it possible for the traveller to go back to his past and murder his ancestor before the ancestor was able to father anyone; however, that is logically or chronologically inconsistent since the very fact of the traveller’s existence establishes the fact that his ancestor had fathered someone as a result of which the traveller was later on born. If the ancestor died before fathering someone, the traveller would not have come to be to travel back and exterminate his ancestor. So, there is an element of self-contradiction in the very idea of time-travel.

      Of course, there are angles by which determinists (those who believe that events are pre-determined and cannot be changed) and non-determinists (those who believe that

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