Science and the A-Theory of Time
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They say she's in the class 18 stuck in her daydream |
| 0:09.0 | been this way since 18 |
| 0:12.0 | Dr Craig we've interacted with some of the work of Jonathan M. |
| 0:16.0 | Pierce from time to time. |
| 0:18.0 | He's a blogger, an author, non-theist, and he talks about you and your view of A Theory of Time in this particular article that we're looking at. |
| 0:27.0 | He cites the work of Counterapologist, another non-theist blogger that's pretty popular. |
| 0:34.0 | They bring up here the A Theory of Time and he says that your case for A Theory is this. |
| 0:41.0 | Quoting, he needs time to be absolute and not relative as science appears |
| 0:45.2 | to predict and lead to. |
| 0:47.1 | This means that there must be something called a privileged reference frame, or similar |
| 0:51.6 | wording, that everything in the universe refers to. |
| 0:54.8 | However, science appears to prefer relativity such that time is relative depending on the |
| 1:00.5 | reference point. |
| 1:02.1 | If twins live on earth and one twin flies off at near the |
| 1:06.4 | speed of light and returns sometime later, the two clocks that the twins own and |
| 1:11.7 | keep on them will show different times. |
| 1:15.0 | There is no overarching time, which dictates both paradigms, |
| 1:20.5 | but individual and relative times for want of a better explanation. |
| 1:25.0 | Now I was puzzled when he said right off the bat that Craig needs time to be absolute. I thought what does he mean by this that I need time to |
| 1:39.8 | be absolute and I think the reason he thinks that he emerges later in the blog where he says, |
| 1:45.1 | Craig needs absolute time for the Kalam cosmological argument to work. |
| 1:52.8 | And I think what he's thinking of, in fact I feel certain about this |
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