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Politics : Evolution
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (124)9/13/1999 9:46:00 PM
From: Akula  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
I admit that I have not been able to follow this debate as well as I would wish (I went to school and you people wrote 200 messages - don't you have things to do!:-), but I have the sneaking suspicion that a post of mine spawned this debate way back in the teens. My view on the matter is this:
If I can make a completely random decision then I have free will. If my position can be predicted from any point in the past, then the decision was not random and I have no free will. Thus, if God knows by prediction what I will do, then I cannot make an independent decision. If, however, God exists in my future, then He is already there when I make my decision. Thus God knows what I will do at a point possibly in my past, but not by prediction. I thus can have free will.
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