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From: bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes )
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Subject: Re: Omniscience vs. Free Will (again!)
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Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 01:51:49 EST
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I think that David Norris has at least caught the drift of the omniscient
G-d vs. free will argument if I read his last submission correctly:

"God, being omniscient, knows that we are going to disobey the law
of jurisprudence tomorrow and fall on our butt.  It does not follow that He
makes it happen, because watching someone do something is not the same as 
making them do it."

This is, I think, more or less the point that various people have been
trying to make.  If the Deity is omniscient, then it knows what we
are going to do today, tomorrow, or for eternity.  It doesn't *matter*
whether or not we are made to do it.  To an all-knowing diety, the
outcome and all outcomes are *known.*  The human notion of "free will"
is irrelevant in the face of that knowledge.
-- 

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

					   Byron Howes
					UNC - Chapel Hill
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