why I'm an atheist...

[Utah]

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To me, it seems as though the universe MUST have had a beginning at some point in time.

[/ QUOTE ]Your perception of time and movement may be completely different then their true nature. We already know time is not static and is dependant on speed. Additionally, we know that the human mind warps itself as not all relatively equal timeframes (e.g., 60 minutes) are perceived to be of the same duration by the brain.

Barbour wrote a weak ass book called, <u>The End of Time</u> However, he did raise an interesting point in that movement may not exist outside of our perception.

Some will say, "well time is a dimension". However, I find that weak and incomplete. I read a very interesting article I think last month talking about how even laws of the universe may not exist - ie, there are no fundamentals. Rather, the human mind simply searches for symmetry. After all, a law really is simply a state of symmerty (it looks indentical no matter which way you look at it).