The Block Universe and the Necessary Being

How the B-Theory of Time Demands an External Explanation for the Universe 1. Introduction What is the B-theory of Time? “Nothing was around before the big, Big Bang,” Stephen Hawking famously said in an interview with Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. According to Hawking, if we keep going backwards in time, time does not hit a... Continue Reading →

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The B-theory of time, creation ex-nihilo, Craig & “kalam”

My article The Ghazalian response to deniers of causality led to some interesting discussions on Facebook . One of the contentions raised relate to a certain view of time, known as the B-theory of time, which imagines the universe as a 4-D space-time block. Matter/energy is distributed across this space-time continuum and a single point... Continue Reading →

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