(April 4, 2014 at 8:02 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: If God operates outside of time, all of time appears at once. When is Gods fine tuning done? 'When' isn't something a timeless God is confined by. The tuning could bea constant ongoing process and our reality an infinitely morphing one.This is kind of mind-bending, though. If god can see all of time, he can see the actions that I will take in the future, yes? And I wonder-- is it possible for me to change that course, or is it locked in? If it's locked in, then is there a formula that determines that I was going to take those actions? And who is responsible for that? If it's not locked in, how can god possibly know my future?
Predictability implies that there is some pattern or formula that guides outcomes. If there is, how does it fit with the notion of free will, or at least of choices made freely when our behavior is so predictable that all of time can exist at once and be 'read'?
"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
