Does tim travel prove the existence of god?

[goan]

this is only a theory but If we could go forward in time then we would be travveling along our path and would see what other people do futher along their along their life paths. This would mean our lifes were preordained for us. There for a superior being must control us? Would you agree this would prove a God or Gods exist?

[mattfox]

OK how about this situation...

If someone did create a time machine for the benefit of everyone else, some nasty person would inevitably get hold of it and travel back in time to ensure that the invention was theirs and theirs along. But that would mean that the time machine would never have been made available to the public, and Mr Nasty would never have had the time machine in the first place.

I think that there are far too many paradoxes for time travel to exist in any shape or form (Thunderchild - I wasn't being entirely serious in my theory, I hope u can see!!)

I'm also not a big believer in the conventional God theory - I prefer a scientific approach, whether everything just fell into place one day or we were actually visited by more intelligent beings. Perhaps over the eons, the stories were exaggerated and this has become the modern day gods.

Bill Bryson has likened the chances of life spontaneously appearing on earth to a hurricane blowing through a aeroplane hanger and leaving a fully formed Boeing in it's wake! But given an infinite amount of time, it could happen!!!

[Red Monkey]

Ha first of all nice one Loosehead!! There must be some way of travellin thru time but then again as has been kinda touched on how do you know you would ever go to the same 'time', like it could be another reality which has been changed cos of someone's decisions and if every decision had an effect like that there would be so many that surely if you ever did travel backwards or forwards you could never get back to where you were!! I mean no one has ever really claimed to have been from the future have they (or at least no one believable) but if there was a near enough infinite amount of timelines then that would make sense. It would be so rare for anyone to find it. All aside from this I like to think that no person/thing/being/whatever is deciding stuff for me... if thats the case surely no one is responsible for their actions and this being (God or whoever) is obviously a bit of a sod!!!

[judithz]

His name was Carl SagAn.  If you follow the link given you wont access the webpage. 

Substitute sagan for sagen.

[ImPuzzled]

Everything time travels according to what speed it has moved at, due to small relativistic effects.

All possible futures do exist, therefore the future you will experience is preordained but other versions of you have theirs preordained too. The limited human capacity to percieve 'reality' allows for the illusion of freedom of choice.

None of the above proves the existence of God. In a view of spacetime where all possible universes exist, at least some of the universes will contain an entity which is more or less similar the human construct 'god'.

[J..]

Don't think we can "prove" this. We can look back and see our history - was that post-ordained for us? And would that prove any existance of God or Gods. When (or if) we can learn what our conciousness really is, then we may find that belief and proof may be brought closer together - It's these sorts of thoughts that make science, theology and philosophy so fascinating. Keep thinking!