As early as being a senior high school student, I was troubled with the concept of time. True, the teacher of our philosophy class was good, he started many stimulating dialogs, but on the subject of time no one else shared my concerns. Actually, it was triggered by the statement of dialectic materialism that motion (in most general meaning; change) is the mode of matter existence. My conclusion at the time was that the awareness of time is due only and entirely to periodic phenomena, like day/night and birth/death, i.e. due to natural clock(s); no clock - no time. During my college years I added wave phenom- ena (sound, electromagnetic waves) to my argument. I’ve even claimed that particle/wave dualism is a consequence of our time perception.
Now, some fifty years later, I realized I share my views with God.
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God created time, stupid, who else would do such a thing? The prime daily news on Hrvatska 1 (Croatia One), the major Croatian broadcasting system, are followed (without commercial interruption!) with some preaching [grWeekly 070422]. The spot, called Duhovna Misao (Spiritual Thought), is usually narrated by a catholic clergyman from some small city or village. On March 23, 2009, the spiritual thought was about time (!): God created time, more precisely God created celestial bodies to make man aware of time. Here we go! Of course, we can’t expect argument that God introduced motion of celestial bodies for the time’s purpose: motion, revolution, change and terms like that are just to revolutionary for the catholic church, any church for that matter. |
Andreas Cellarius: Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1660. |
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