Good point. The bible puts it somewhat differently. "To God a thousand years
are but a day". However, it does not quite deal with the problem of why God
used a 15 billion year process instead of an instantaneous process.Or why
God created a universe this size if all he meant to do was to provide a home
for Man.
-----Original Message-----
From: MikeSatterlee@cs.com [mailto:MikeSatterlee@cs.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:00 PM
To: shuanr@boo.net
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the implications of evolution as a means of
creation
Shuan Rose wrote: One of the objections raised to the concept of God
creating
though evolution is, Why would God use a process that would take 15 billion
years? Was he
simply twiddling his thumbs waiting for Man's appearance?
Of course we know that Einstein proved long ago that time is only a
dimension
of our physical universe. And that time did not begin until our physical
universe began.
Since God created our physical universe, He must have existed before our
dimension of time began. Or, since the word "before" refers to a point in
time, it is probably more appropriate to speak of God existing "beyond" our
dimension of time, rather than "before" our dimension of time. That being
the
case, since God has all during these past 15 billion years existed beyond
our
dimension of time, He has never had to spend any time "waiting for man's
appearance." For He has, all during this time, existed beyond time.
As three dimensional people we exist beyond the two dimensional images which
are displayed on our computer monitors. Because we do, we are able to move
to
the sides of our monitors and view their depths rather than their widths and
heights. When we do so, their widths disappear from view. Since God exists
beyond our four dimensional universe He is, no doubt, able to view one of
its
dimensions, time, in much the same way. By doing so, I'm sure He was able to
avoid "twiddling His thumbs" for 15 billion years. : )
Mike
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