Ep. 84 William Lane Craig on God, Time, and Creation
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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The Relational Theory of Time
Solicitors cannot set the stage by defining some terms. So start by telling me what the relational theory of time is, and then what the absolute theory ofTime is. I want you to help listeners understand how you get to this conclusion. On a relational view of time, time is a relation between events of earlier or later than so if there were no events at all, if nothing ever happened, there would be no time. By contrast, on a non-relational or substantival view of time,. time exists independently of events. Time is a substance, a thing that exists whether any events are occurring or not in some cases changeless ness is a necessary condition for time less
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