A Simple Question.

Well yes, as soon as someone came up with the idea of 'time'.

 

It does and it starts with your mother and god.

 

somewere down the line time must have started somewere

 

depends what time you are speaking of. time when we actually acquired the the ability to tell time? or time before that? or time when Adam first laid foot on earth. technically that is when time began. because before that, there is no proof of time.

so a simple answer.

when God first put Adam on earth.

because time is only in relation with humans and life.

 

Time doesn't have a beginning or a end

 

Time itself is not infinite...



1.If the past is infinite, then at t God delayed creating until t + n. (P)

2.If at t God delayed creating until t + n, He must have had a good reason for doing so. (P)

3. If the past is infinite, God cannot have had a good reason for delaying at t creating until t + n. (P)

4.Therefore, if the past is infinite, God must have had a good reason for delaying at t creating until t + n. (HS,1,2)

5.The past is infinite.(P)

6.Therefore, God must have had a good reason for delaying at t creating until t + n.(M–P,4,5)

7.Therefore, God cannot have had a good reason for delaying at t creating until t + n. (MP,3,5)

8.Therefore, God must have had a good reason for delaying at t creating until t + n, and God cannot have had a good reason for delaying at t creating until t + n . (Conj.,6,7)

9. Therefore, if the past is infinite, God must have had a good reason for delaying at t creating until t + n, and God cannot have had a good reason for delaying at t creating until t + n. (CP,5–8)

10. Therefore, the past is not infinite. (RAA,9)

 

if you are Christian, god was the start of time, if not: time is irrelevant. time is a human term used to fill in the gaps in our existences, in others words, just a measurement. like it could have took a stray bullet to kill Bill Gates before he invented the internet and then someone else would have later on created the internet and probably called it "Moose". stupid sounding, maybe, but think about it: the only reason we don't laugh when someone says peacock is cause we know it as a bird. i bet (again with the Christianity) if Adam, or whoever, decided to call it a Nooplet, i i'm sure there would be fields with little Nooplets running around, even though they are still peacocks.

 

Of course, everything has a beginning and an end

 

everything has a beginning i imagine

 

In my opinion the human race is not yet ready to fully understand concepts like these. Centuries ago people thought they understood everything, they knew the sun revolved around a completely flat earth. We will eventually come to believe that we have discovered a solution and inevitably we will be proven wrong by future generations. Time begins where our knowledge of time begins and there is no way to know what was before that.