RE: Theists: How can predetermined fate and free will coexist?
December 19, 2016 at 8:03 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2016 at 8:04 pm by Tonus.)
That's pretty wild, though. Let's say there is a single timeline and God can view it from end to end. Have all of the events actually happened? What if he steps in and makes a change and other changes ripple outward and make big changes in the timeline. Certain events that happened in version 1 do not happen in version 2. Did they "un-happen"?
Huh. Who needs hard drugs when you have timeline theory...
Huh. Who needs hard drugs when you have timeline theory...
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
