Augustine time

These words seem to be ahead of their time - though I don't have the original context to hand to check:

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneous with time. For that which is made in time is made both after and before some time - after that which is past, before that which is future. But none could then be past, for there was no creature by whose movements its duration could be measured. But simultaneously with time the world was made.

St Augustine quoted in Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees

Augustine had some interesting things to say about faith and science, though his views on 'The Fall' have led theology down a wrong turn.