RE: Free will and predestiny -
04-23-2006, 08:31 PM
Mwanainchi,
I think your analogy is fallacious. Everyone knows you will get drunk if you drink a bottle of vodka. Everyone knows you will die if you jump from a 30 storey building. Everyone knows you will lose your hair if you undergo chemotherapy. Everyone knows you will have bad breath if you don't brush your teeth. etc. Those are CONSEQUENCES, not signs of omniscience, and any reasonable man can accurately predict such consequences.
There is a world of difference between knowing that a car hitting a pedestrian head-on at 200 MPH will kill the pedestrian (consequences) - and knowing what the 78th word a man will utter on June 23rd 2047 is (omniscience). You are trying to compare the two.
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