For Akiva Jaap Vroman "a day in the infinite past" is nonsense. All the days that have elapsed belong to a past of countable
days; they started on a first day a finite number of days ago. Time began this first day. It follows that an eternal past
does not exist. Vroman bases his reasoning on a simple mathematical law: an infinite quantity remains the same infinite quantity
if a finite quantity, however large, is subtracted from it. On God, Space, and Time devotes itself to this proof.On God, Space,
and Time is rooted in the epistemological thinking of Immanuel Kant and Jean Piaget and the law of Leucippus, and draws from
the somewhat disparate fields of psychology, physiology, mathematics, and physics. Vroman discusses the modern vindication
of the existence of the Creator using ontological arguments, which observe the cosmos solely through our sense-perceptions
and the world of space and matter. He balances this worldview with a discussion of brain chemistry and physiology in "God,
Mind, and Body" showing that the world of space and matter is nothing but an interpretation made by our working mind. Vroman
also describes the Spanish-based Jewish philosophers of the Middle Ages who came close to solving the Genesis-Creation contradiction,
which cannot be reconciled through the external world of Greek philosophy.As we travel through time with Vroman, who ranges
easily and poetically over important concepts and influential thinkers, we encounter a variety of subjects: Spinoza's new
definition of God and the authority of reason in the age of Descartes, Leibniz, and Newton; Jewish idealists, such as Nachman
Krochmal, Solomon L. Steinman, Solomon Formstecher, and Samuel Hirsch; the concept of space-time; and Johann Gottlieb Fichte,
Arthur Schopenhauer, Max Wentscher, and Charles Darwin. He presents engaging, worthwhile discussions of futurology; the astrological
world of sub-lunar events; religious eschatology, specifically the Jewish and Christian Messiah; apocalyptic revelation in
psychological science, the future of the universe, God and moral virtue, the medical approach to the question of life and
death, and finally, personal thoughts on religious worship and service based on reason and moral sense. On God, Space, and
Timea valuable historical synthesis of Western thought on man's vision of God, and consequently reality. This volume will
interest many, particularly those intrigued by philosophy, religion, and futurology.