The Illusion of Time (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Friday, September 10, 2010, 19:31 (4971 days ago) @ xeno6696


> The discussion that spawned all of this got me thinking: if God knows what we're going to do at the moment we're going to do it, the entire universe is that instant, and therefore that "playground." If God literally IS the entire universe, then he can only know its past, know its present, and just like us--can only predict the future. The lack of predictability--is precisely the kind of thing of entertainment for a being that can know the position of everything in the universe at once...-I certainly can agree with you that a river is a river, and at 10 thousand CFM (the Grand Canyon Colorado generally), it is a different river every instant. And time is certainly like that, only past, the instant of now, and the future. -On the other hand there are laws by which the universe operates and evolves and appears to be controlled in a certain direction to a very cold ending. I think God knows the future of the universe, just as we are predicting it; but your thought about unpredictability seems to fit His favorite folks, free-will humans. That is where the fun is!! And any other free-will folks, if there are any.