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Letter: Letter

Published 6 November 1999

From Susan Lampitt

It is good to know that science and religion are converging. In his article
Barbour suggests that time is simply a human interpretative device and writes:
“There are many `Nows’ in which a version of us exists.”

St Augustine of Hippo anticipated this by some sixteen hundred years, when he
said that only “Now” exists. Past and future exist in our present; time is
subjective. A rather perceptive cleric!

Charlecote, Warwickshire

Issue no. 2211 published 6 November 1999

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