(March 31, 2014 at 8:45 pm)tor Wrote: So he is saying that if god knows what my choices are gonna be I am still free cause I can do otherwise. And how am I going to do that?When it comes to Yahweh, nothing is straightforward. Throw in omniscience and free will and the possible explanations are seemingly endless.
This omniscience thing is pretty straight forward. If god knows I will do X I can't not do X. I see no flaw in the argument.
"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
