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Harun Yahya

CHAPTER 18

RELATIVITY OF TIME AND THE REALITY OF FATE

verything related so far demonstrates that we never have direct contact with the "three-dimensional
space" of reality, and that we lead our whole lives within our minds. Asserting the contrary would be

E to profess a superstitious belief removed from reason and scientific truth, for by no means can we
achieve direct contact with the original of the external world.
This refutes the primary assumption of the materialist philosophy underlying evolutionary theory—the

assumption that matter is absolute and eternal. The materialistic philosophy's second assumption is that
time is also absolute and eternal—a supposition just as superstitious as the first.

The Perception of Time

What we call "time" is in fact a method by which one moment is compared to another. For example,
when a person taps an object, he hears a particular sound. If he taps the same object five minutes later, he
hears another sound. Thinking there is an interval between the two sounds, he calls this interval "time." Yet

when he hears the second sound, the first one he heard is no more than a memory in his mind, merely a bit
of information in his imagination. A person formulates his perception of time by comparing the moment in
which he lives with what he holds in memory. If he doesn't make this comparison, he can have no perception
of time either.

Similarly, a person makes a comparison when he sees someone enter through a door and sit in an arm-
chair in the middle of the room. By the time this person sits in the armchair, the images of the moment he
opened the door and made his way to the armchair are compiled as bits of information in memory. The per-
ception of time takes place when one compares the man sitting on the armchair with those bits of recalled in-

formation.
Briefly, time comes about as a result of comparisons of information stored in the brain. If man had no
memory, his brain could not make such interpretations and therefore, he would never form any perception
of time. One determines himself to be thirty years old, only because he has accumulated in his mind infor-

mation pertaining to those thirty years. If his memory did not exist, then he could not think of any such pre-
ceding period and would be experiencing only the single "moment" in which he was living.

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