(May 16, 2013 at 3:22 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Let me try another angle. God doesn't know the choice you make until you make it. Being god, timelessness one of his l33t skilz, no sooner has this infinitely complex soup flashed into existence from the snap of his fingers, than he can then flip this time span on its end and find us all hugging him together singing cumbiya.
If God is timeless, how could something not exist at one point to him and then exist later? Shouldn't he have knowledge of all things bound by time regardless?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell