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Reconstructing William Craig Explanation of Absolute Time Based on Islamic Philosophy
After the advent of the theory of special relativity, the existence of an
absolute time in nature was rejected in physics society. In recent decades,
William Craig has endeavored to offer an interpretation of empirical evidences
corresponding to theory of relativity with the preservation of an absolute
time. His strategy is based on two viewpoints including dynamical theory of
time and the Eminent God's temporal being. After considering and criticizing
these two viewpoints, using the well-known overall substantial motion of nature
in Islamic philosophy and thus the realization of a general time for all the
nature, we have tried to reconstruct Craig argument for an absolute time.
Although Craig has considered some evidences from modern physics reasoning on
an absolute time, the special advantage of the approach considered here is in
this fact that it connects better the existing gap between the metaphysics and
the physics of the argument.Comment: 16 page
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