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Originally Posted by benhelmuth
But the measurements of time that we have only exist because we have defined them.
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True. But time itself does exist.
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We had no idea time existed until we started measuring the movement of the sun and saying that was time.
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Not true. Humans can distinguish the past from the present, and can foresee the consequences of their decisions in the future (to a limited extent, anyways.) We could do that before we built sundials. All of that requires that time exist.
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If you have ever stayed up between two days what defines one from the other? Midnight how can such an igsignificant event define our daily schedules?
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That has to do with the "rhythm", if you will, of the human body. We sleep at night, and are active during the day. So why wouldn't we keep that in mind when creating measurements of time?
This argument is akin to saying that distance doesn't exist because why, then, would we use meters (or feet, or whatever) to measure it? As you can see, it shows nothing at all.