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Default RE: Free will and predestiny - 04-23-2006, 09:04 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.


Atlian,

Do you know what an analogy is and what it's purpose is? If you did, you wouldnt wanna waste space basing your argument on the analogy itself but the argument put forth using the analogy. Sometimes dont take things too literally!

To help you understand using the analogy which u've based ur argument on, yes man knows the concequences but does not know when and who will drink a bottle of vodka and get drunk. God does know.

@CB, apparently someone still doesnt get it.
 


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