successive moment he could know every past-tense truth that there is at that moment. Hence, it does not follow that if God is temporal, He cannot have perfect recollection of the past. Poincaré’s hypothesis suggests, therefore, that if God is temporal, His present is constitutive of relations of absolute simultaneity.33 On this view, the philosopher J. M. Findlay was wrong when he said, “the influence which harmonizes and connects all the world-lines is not God, not any featureless, inert, medium,