(April 7, 2014 at 10:07 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The formula is you.Well, it would need to be a bit more involved than that, I think. That's like asking for a recipe for a casserole and being told "the recipe is the casserole."
Quote:Everything extant influences the course everything takes through time. Everything is the pattern. If God is outside of time, I think he can see the whole of it at once.If he is outside of time, then maybe everything has already happened and what he is really doing is looking into the past, which happens to encompass our present and future. And then it is a question of whether he can step into the time-stream at any point and influence events, and whether that changes everything else. So that when he steps back out of time and into his own reality, he sees a completely new past.
That would actually be very cool. And if he could make me a bit less of a nebbish when I was in high school, I'd really appreciate it. Or uh, I guess I wouldn't be able to appreciate it...
"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
