RE: A Day in the Life of the Torah: How Can Time Prove the Authenticity of Genesis by Charlie Shrem
So what is time and how do you measure it?
On the subject, saying that there's no such thing as "now" is like saying that a derivative is meaningless "because you're dividing zero by zero, aren't you?" There is a definite "now", but (strangely) it takes an unusually abstract line of thought to justify what we know intuitively. Just like we know that there's some point in a circle where the tangent line is flat...
As for time itself...the first dictionary definition is:
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
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I'm not that well trained philosophically, so I can't see what's slippery in the above.
Was the earth created in a single day or over a long period?
I'm afraid I'm going to take the Clarence Darrow cop-out :)
This is what I have most trouble wrapping my head around. Can you explain the last part?
Okay: the tangent line is a line whose slope is equal to the slope of a function at a certain point. Think of an eight foot long 2 X 4 placed on or under a specific part of a small Ferris wheel or huge Hula hoop. Something like this:
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AC would be the "2 x 4". It's the tangent.
Intuitively, we know that there are two places where the "2 x 4" would be horizontal: i.e., have a slope of zero. Flat. :)
But it is hard to justify because the circle has no edges.
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