For Akiva Jaap Vroman "a day in the infinite past" is nonsense. All
the days that have elapsed belong to a past of countable days; they
started on a first day a finite number of days ago. Time began this
first day. It follows that an eternal past does not exist. Vroman
bases his reasoning on a simple mathematical law: an infinite
quantity remains the same infinite quantity if a finite quantity,
however large, is subtracted from it. "On God, Space, and Time"
devotes itself to this proof. "On God, Space, and Time" is rooted
in the epistemological thinking of Immanuel Kant and Jean Piaget
and the law of Leucippus, and draws from the somewhat disparate
fields of psychology, physiology, mathematics, and physics. Vroman
discusses the modern vindication of the existence of the Creator
using ontological arguments, which observe the cosmos solely
through our sense-perceptions and the world of space and matter. He
balances this worldview with a discussion of brain chemistry and
physiology in "God, Mind, and Body" showing that the world of space
and matter is nothing but an interpretation made by our working
mind. Vroman also describes the Spanish-based Jewish philosophers
of the Middle Ages who came close to solving the Genesis-Creation
contradiction, which cannot be reconciled through the external
world of Greek philosophy. As we travel through time with Vroman,
who ranges easily and poetically over important concepts and
influential thinkers, we encounter a variety of subjects: Spinoza's
new definition of God and the authority of reason in the age of
Descartes, Leibniz, and Newton; Jewish idealists, such as Nachman
Krochmal, Solomon L. Steinman, Solomon Formstecher, and Samuel
Hirsch; the concept of space-time; and Johann Gottlieb Fichte,
Arthur Schopenhauer, Max Wentscher, and Charles Darwin. He presents
engaging, worthwhile discussions of futurology; the astrological
world of sub-lunar events; religious eschatology, specifically the
Jewish and Christian Messiah; apocalyptic revelation in
psychological science, the future of the universe, God and moral
virtue, the medical approach to the question of life and death, and
finally, personal thoughts on religious worship and service based
on reason and moral sense. "On God, Space, and Time"a valuable
historical synthesis of Western thought on man's vision of God, and
consequently reality. This volume will interest many, particularly
those intrigued by philosophy, religion, and futurology.
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