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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 con-
trary would be 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 com-
pared 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 informa-
tion 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 per-

174 Relativity of Time and the Reality of Fate