As shown by Larmor (1927a & b), Gödel (1949) and Kühne (2002), absolute time is indispensable at the cosmic scale, and is required by the General Theory of Relativity. Melia (2007; 2012) and Melia and Shevchuk (2012) have argued that FLRW-type metrics reduce to the Minkowski metric, and the Hubble horizon is a ‘gravitational horizon’, as defined by Melia (2018), as opposed to either a particle or an event horizon, as these are defined by Rindler (1956). Their argumentdepends on the mass of the Hubble sphere being variable, whereas, if it is constant, its radius becomes that of a black hole, and its horizon is an event horizon. In every direction we look, total cosmic distance is given by the present age of the Universe multiplied by the speed of light in vacuum. If we abandon the cosmological principle as defined by Milne (1933), we can see we are at the centre of a chronosphere, with the ‘Big Bang’ singularity at its circumference. Eddington (1939) would doubtless have seen the numerical ‘coincidences’ that arise in cosmology as proof of God’s existence and creation of the Universe.