RE: How Free Will and Omniscience Works
September 3, 2012 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2012 at 3:15 pm by IATIA.)
(August 30, 2012 at 2:57 am)idunno Wrote: To borrow the hypothetical from GodlessGirl's thread, You have to choose between an apple an an orange. So if this all-knowing God knows you are going to pick the apple but you choose the orange you have just negated Gods omniscience. If you are unable to pick the orange then you have negated free will.
This is an ambiguous statement. Just because this "all-knowing god" 'knows' what choice may be made, in no way forces the choice any more than I force you to drive on the right side of the road rather that cross the median into oncoming traffic.
In effect, this "all-knowing god" implies 'Laplace's demon', which would negate any free will, including god's.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
