. “The Debate over the Block Universe ." Is ours a world of timeless being (the “block universe”) or of flowing time and true becoming? The current debate over the block universe, represented in the essay by Chris Isham and

Block Universe A view of spacetime that affords equal (ontological ) status to all points in spacetime, thus regarding temporality as an illusory human construct with no reference to reality as understood by modern physics.

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Big Bang , the oscillating universe and inflation makes little difference to Alston’s position in general, though the status of time in these models might be significant. To pursue this question, Alston distinguishes between a block universe

is surprisingly mixed. The block universe interpretation seems highly compatible with the classical view of eternity as the absence of change, the simultaneous presence to God of all moments and events in the history of the universe, but is the

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with the block universe model of space-time. Keith Ward finds arguments for the immaterial nature of mental images to be persuasive, and given this, the logical possibility that human agency may also be rooted in the immaterial.

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