(August 21, 2010 at 9:57 pm)annatar Wrote: So can a god possibly predict everything after big bang?That's the interesting thing, realistically, he can't possibly. The Biblical God in Genesis didn't even know where Adam's exact whereabouts in the Garden of Eden were.
However theists assert he is outside space-time therefore has already seen everything before it happened but of course logically we must ask them, at what time interval did god initiate the current-universe and how could he if he's transcendent to begin with?
Monotheists never seem to share the same beliefs regarding their one true god's attributes of omnipresence and omniscience. It always fascinates me how much these intuitions of theirs differ from each other, just the other day a close relative openly stated that "god is dead".
At first I thought this was a coining of the phrase from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, but actually the opposite was true, he believed god existed and died in a literal sense – he believed god for unknown reasons tried and failed to create a companion, another God, in the void and exploded (probably borrowing from the Big Bang theory no doubt). He went on to say God's deceased remains (matter, energy etc) make up the cosmos.
I told him the hypothesis holds as much weight as the almighty all-fat all-large Hippopotamus farting out the current universe as we know it. Needless to say that didn't go down well... I didn't realise he was being serious about his position.
