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    Challenges→God is timeless with respect to 'Measured Time' (the specifically human time of seconds, days, and centuries).

    Modern physics reveals that simultaneity is frame-relative, not absolute, undermining the coherence of a single 'now' from which God surveys all time (cf. Padgett, 'God, Eternity and the Nature of Time').

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    Key Terms

    Absolute(1930 [1893]: 129)
    One system whose contents are nothing but sentient experience; a single and all-inclusive experience embracing every partial diversity in concord.
    Padgett, 'God, Eternity and the Nature of Time'(as a citation in philosophy of religion)
    A reference to a work by philosopher David Padgett exploring how God's relationship to time challenges traditional ideas about eternity and change.
    The coherence of(as used in logic and philosophy)
    Whether something makes sense or fits together logically without contradiction.
    cf.(as used in academic and philosophical writing)
    An abbreviation of the Latin phrase 'confer,' meaning 'compare this to' or 'see also'—it tells you to look at another source for a related idea.
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    (Special Theory of Relativity)
    A quantity whose measured value depends on the observer's reference frame (state of motion), rather than being an objective observer-independent fact.
    now(Relational account of temporal moments)
    A moment that is constituted by its relation to 'then'; really 'now-then'
    simultaneity
    The property of two events occurring at the same time, which in Einstein's model is relative to reference frames rather than absolute

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