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ith what we have already described, the fact we never<br />

have direct experience of the original of a "3-dimensional<br />

space" and that we spend all our lives in a<br />

space in our minds becomes crystal clear. Asserting<br />

the contrary would be to profess a superstitious belief removed<br />

from reason and scientific truth, for it is not possible to have direct<br />

contact with the original of the external world.<br />

This refutes the primary assumption of the materialist philosophy<br />

underlying evolutionary theory—the assumption that matter is<br />

absolute and eternal. The materialistic philosophy's second assumption<br />

is that time is also absolute and eternal—a supposition just as<br />

superstitious as the first.<br />

The Perception of Time<br />

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)<br />

What we call "time" is in fact a method by which one moment is<br />

compared to another. For example, when a person taps an object, he<br />

hears a particular sound. If he taps the same object again, he hears<br />

another sound. Thinking there is an interval between the two<br />

sounds, he calls this interval "time." Yet when he hears the second<br />

sound, the first one he heard is no more than a memory in his mind,<br />

merely a bit of information in his imagination. A person formulates<br />

his perception of time by comparing the moment in which he lives<br />

with what he holds in memory. If he doesn't make this comparison,<br />

he can have no perception of time either.<br />

Similarly, a person makes a comparison when he sees someone<br />

enter through a door and sit in an armchair in the middle of the<br />

room. By the time this person sits in the armchair, the images of the<br />

moment he opened the door and made his way to the armchair are<br />

compiled as bits of information in memory. The perception of time<br />

takes place when one compares the man sitting on the armchair<br />

with those bits of recalled information.<br />

Briefly, time comes about as a result of comparisons of information<br />

stored in the brain. If man had no memory, his brain could not make<br />

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