Re: [lojban] RE: imaginary worlds and the death of God

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Jorge Llambias scripsit:

> If God is omniscient then a deterministic universe is convenient,
> for otherwise we would have to admit that God could be wrong in
> His knowledge of the future.

Foreknowledge, even perfect foreknowledge, doesn't imply causation.
For example:  I can hand you a sealed envelope and say "In this
letter there are two choices given.  I foreknow which of these
you will choose, and to prove it, I will write it down here
and seal it in this second envelope."  You open the first envelope,
choose one of the options, and then my envelope is checked.  Sure
enough, I know which option you chose.

Option 1 said "Drink battery acid", option 2 said "Go to room 402
and collect a check for US$1 million."

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter