As Times Change : Traditional Vs. Experiential

Before the start of World War Ⅱ, Jan’s expertise in zoology landed him the role of the Warsaw Zoo’s director in 1929, after the founding director had died. During this time, Jan “…authored approximately 60 books about biology and the psychology of animals, as well as produced a number of very popular radio-shows” (Hiding in Zoo Cages: Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Poland 2017).

time,” is a statement which this book The Daughter of Time demonstrated very well. It showed how

For nearly 150 years, the American Museum of Natural History has helped to enlighten New Yorkers and visitors alike about the natural sciences. With its 150th anniversary approaching and new expansion and renovation plans in the works, the museum’s next chapter may be its most important

New ideas derived from self-reflection enable us to develop in ways that are spiritually linked to the future. The inexorable passage of adulthood is established by the motif of time, indicating that life is continuously moving forward. The personification of time “guiltless minute hand” suggest that time is not responsible for our future, but we are. Additionally, the dysphemistic personification of “time was killed” foreshadows the cessation of childhood. Eventually, the

This view was in dialectical opposition to Heraclitus of Ephesus, who argued that the world is in a constant state of flux. Heraclitus argues that there is a problem with people’s attachment to the illusion of permanence. Everything in the world will not stay the same, we can see this from the idea from Heraclitus that ‘it is not possible to step twice into the same river, according to Heraclitus, nor to touch mortal substance twice in any condition’ (Plutarch, 392B). Rivers are bodies of water that continually flows so that every second the water at a point in the river is not the same as it was before. The state of the physical world has never remained the same; mountains move over millions of years, a few billion years ago Earth could not sustain life, and even longer ago there were no solids, no liquids, only gases. Each moment can be said to die and be reborn in the next, so that change occurs every moment and it

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. (The Enemy’s determination to produce such a revolting hybrid was one of the things that determined Our Father to withdraw his support from Him). As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirits can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time means to change. – Screwtape, Chapter 8, Page 37, Lines 7 – 15.

In this essay, I shall analyse the problem of “Why didn’t a temporal God create the world sooner?”. This essay shall begin with an exposition of the problem as provided by Leftow, and then explain Leftow’s and Swinburne’s solutions. Furthermore, I shall explain the ineffectiveness of these solutions exposed by Craig, and I shall provide the view that the most effective solution to the problem is that God’s temporal mode of existence changes from timeless prior to creation, and temporal post-creation. However, firstly, we must understand the problem with which we are dealing.

"For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious." Albert Einstein

It could argued that our common-sense notion of endurance through time is incorrect. That this mistaken self-conception lead us to experience the passage of time. If so, this would be illusory no? And if this enduring ‘me’ is an illusion then so is the passage of time.

In this essay I am going to put forward arguments for and against the idea of the world having a temporal beginning. I will start by outlining the basic problems of this debate and show why I intuitively believe in time having a beginning. I will then delve deeper into this debate to try and support this idea and show how I will possibly have to look to other areas, such as science, in order to prove my point.

New ideas to some are downright scary, in part because they challenge traditional professional standards, roles, and practices. Now local museums have entered an era in which it is more important to “do the right things” by demonstrating that museums, historic sites, and cultural organizations matter to their communities. The traditional activities of collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting, and interpreting are simply no longer adequate. In this day and age of social media, let’s face it-- people want to be

“Change can only be perceived through that which persists and its alteration. For the difference of the times in which things are can only be perceived in them as parts of one and the same time. All change is only the division of time. Hence there must be something that exists throughout the entire time since the whole is always the ground of the division. Hence substance is the substratum, and that which is changing is only the way in which this exists” (A

Zoos and aquaria are popular tourist and leisure attractions that bring people and ages from all over the world. Many zoos do much more than have sites where people come to see the animals. There are research facilities and other habitats where animals go when the climate is not ideal. The first zoo was established in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1874. The Philadelphia zoo was built however in 1859 but was delayed due to the civil war (Phil. Zoo). Aquaria’s are much live zoos where people from all over the world come. Aquaria’s have fish and aquatic species that are exotic. The first aquarium is called “The Fish House.” It was built in London in 1853. There are over 300 types of fish (London Zoo). Zoo’s and aquaria have been very controversial because of their economic advantages and animal rights. There is economic interest in zoos because of both a

‘Imagine you were in charge of a museum’s collecting policy. What would you chose to collect and how would you justify these decisions?’

It is paradoxical to have a course, which revolves round the corrosiveness of faulted Western notions of time and its depiction through abstraction, identify itself with an abstract title but argue for the concreteness and tangibility of the portrayal of time and space. A Place Beyond Time does just that. Containing a vastly abstract title, A Place Beyond Time may at first glance appear to properly relate time as a tangent notion with space. Upon further contemplation, however, it becomes patent that A Place Beyond Time possesses a conspicuous absence present in its philosophy of aloofness from intangibility. And although the name of the course attempts to tackle and manifest the complications of abstract and concrete time, it is through its lack of definition and precision, lack of possession, and lack of sensation of repetition that A Place Beyond Time fails to properly capitalize on this dilemma.