Refuting Phillip Dennis’s Errors in Physics, ASC, and Philosophy – Part 8
In this article, I will demonstrate that the philosophy of presentism as espoused by Phillip Dennis is not compatible with the physics of Einstein. Recall that presentism is the claim that “only present things exist.” In its strong form, it denies the existence of past things and future things. I have already shown in the last three articles that presentism is unbiblical and illogical, and that arguments against eternalism are fallacious. Indeed, the Bible affirms eternalism – that the past, present, and future are equally real. In fact, all events that have ever happened or ever will happen are already fully known to God (e.g., Isaiah 46:9-10). In this article we will show that the physics of Einstein requires the reality of past and future events and therefore is incompatible with presentism. Indeed, the physics of Einstein has rightly been seen as a vindication of the biblical view of time.