SPACE, TIME, AND CAUSALITY.
The characters of space, time, and causality are issues that are constrained by physics but that require also acts of metaphysical decision. Relativity theory is consistent both with the idea of an a temporal block universe and with a temporal universe of true becoming. Science's account of causal p...
| Published in: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 975 - 985 |
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