wmfights,
Thanks for this OP... I have for a very long time been fond of the idea that time is not constant, and in fact follows the same rate of decay as everything else - This Schroeder guy fits hand and glove with that assumption. What that does to everything is exceptional and profound. Nearly everything from the calculation of work, to the assembly of mass, to the calculations of the expansion rate of the universe. Almost anything we have done in science relies upon time being constant in some way or another.
In addition to the introduction of entropy at the moment of sin, one must also point out the physical ramifications thereof - the sudden growth of weeds, the difficulty of harvest - something changed then that was profound and immediate - Almost an IF/THEN equation which did not alter man, or only man... But rather, the whole environment... perhaps reality itself...
One then is left with the suggestion that we cannot possibly perceive the whole of the truth from within the fishbowl, because everything we can perceive or be made aware of is altered from it’s perfection. What is a lion but that it has tooth and claw? Powerful, and made to kill, but perhaps the lion, in it’s perfection is not that at all. How can one conceive what a lion might be without them? It’s very nature depends thereon.
Great answer, roamer.