"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to a dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." --Macbeth, Act V, Scene v.

One's weltanschauung is determined by aperture through which time and history is viewed. Modern secularism, consisting of humanism, relativism, pragmatism, pluralism, statism and neo-Darwinism, each in correlation, perceives history as consequence of impersonal natural forces acting at random in a blind movement of energy in cyclical fashion. Secularism's foci is present world, its focus is experiential now. Time is devoid of any purposeful design renouncing any symmetry by which sequential events within individual or nation are progressing unto a consummation. The enhancement of self in existential now is secularism's raison d' etre. Each fleeting nanosecond is demanded to bring meaning and fulfillment but ever passing present is incapable of such grand expectations. The attempt to extract from momentary what is immutable, stable and enduring is fruitless. It is what one philosopher calls trying to "eternalize time." The secularist ends up in what Thomas Altizer describes as a "...a total immersion in historical time, and an immersion that is totally isolated from any meaning or reality that might lie beyond it." (Dialectic of Sacred, p. 23) Late 20th century cosmopolitan man or woman lives in a calendar prison as constricting and oppressive as walls and bars that enclose inmate of any maximum security prison. With each passing hour reduction of life grows more pronounced and controlling. Having rejected any meaning or reality that might lie outside constricted moment, man has become time's prisoner. Within this enslavement, time has inflicted him with a disease from which there is no endemic antidote. "Eater of all things lovely--Time! Upon whose watering lips world poises a moment (futile, proud, a costly morsel of sweet tears) gesticulates and disappears." (E. E. Cummings, Puella Mea, p. 20) Modern secularism, having discounted any realm or dimension outside present world has become embodiment of myopia.

In late '60s, three British astrophysicists, Roger Penrose, George Ellis and Steven Hawking made a discovery that impinges on prevailing world view of time and history. Expanding on Einstein's original equations of general relativity, which implied origin for matter and energy, three physicists established that matter was not only finite but that time and space also had a beginning and thus was not infinite. "...in real time, universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which laws of science break down." (Steven Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p. 139) The space-time theorem of general relativity has enormous implications, theologically and philosophically. For time is dimension in which cause and effect phenomena take place. Without time there is no cause and effect. If time had a genesis, concurrent with origin of universe, then there must, by necessity, be an antecedent reality or dimension, that existed before time and was its matrix. This dimension would not be subject to time or space in any contingent manner, but would be determination of such. Astrophysicist Hugh Ross sums up point of divergence between measurable and immeasurable, "If time's beginning is concurrent with beginning of universe, as space-time theorem says, then cause of universe must be some entity operating in a time dimension completely independent of and preexistent to time dimension of cosmos. This conclusion is powerfully important to our understanding of who God is and who or what God isn't. It tells us that Creator is transcendent, operating beyond dimensional limits of universe. It tells us that God is not universe itself, nor is God contained within universe. Pantheism and aetheism do not square with facts.." (The Creator and Cosmos, p. 76)

"In beginning, God created Heavens and Earth." (Genesis 1:1)