CrabCake
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Actually it is a solid argument. It really makes no sense for an all-knowing, all-powerful perfect being to create things which eventually all die out. Seriously. What would be the point of that?
You're stuck in the loop of thinking of things as if they existed within time. Scientific consensus is that they do not. If there is no such thing as time in the way we think about it, then there is no difference between things that existed before, things that exist now, and things that will exist, they all exist simultaneously and there is no greater value to "now" than there is to "before".
That's not consistent with the observed reality.
Sure it is. It's the best explanation we currently have for observed reality. This wasn't some wild idea that was thrown out there out of the blue. This was an idea that developed out of the work of Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and most recently Stephen Hawkin. It's the direct result of observing reality. The fact you don't have the physics or philosophy training to understand doesn't mean that if we observe reality we won't figure out that we are in a block universe; it just means you won't figure it out because you lack the training.