Conway Says, "Let Us Suppose the Duration of This World

question 176

Short Answer

Conway says, "let us suppose the duration of this world to be 600,000 years, or any other number of years, as great as can be by any reason conceived. Now, I demand whether it could be that the world was created before this time? If they deny it, they limit the power of God to a certain number of years; if they affirm it, they allow time to be before all time, which is a manifest contradiction." Do you agree with Conway that it would be a contradiction?

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