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To: TigerPaw who wrote (31)	9/13/1999 9:51:00 AM
From: MikeH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Heh, well if you get into dimensional theory here. And since we are being picky about who did what, this is a gross simplification, but the best that my mundane mind could understand. Current theory says that there are 7 dimensions, only the last 3 are wrapped around the first 4 like an onion. They formed during the big bang, and stopped growing unlike the first 4 dimensions which continue to swell. So, for God to be all powerful, and all knowing, he only need be able to percieve 6 dimensions. This is shown by the "sum of" analogy. The 2nd dimension (a square) is the sum of the all possible first dimensions. The 3rd (a cube) is the sum of all possible 2nd dimensions. The 4th (in which we live) is the sum of all possible 3rd dimensions. Our perception of this is that the 4th grows at a predictible rate, the speed of light. It goes to tell then, that the 5th dimension is the sum of all possible 4th dimensions. So, this means, a person with 5th dimension perception, could view the 4th dimension, at one time. So, from the beginning to the end of time, with a glance. The 6th dimension includes variablity into the 5th dimension. So, 6th dimensional perception includes all POSSIBLE 5th dimensions at a glance. So, chaos thoery cannot hold on a 6th dimensional scale. This level of perception will already know the outcome of all variables, and which variable will occur. Now that your eyes are glazed over, good day... ;-P

To: TigerPaw who wrote (31)	9/13/1999 9:14:00 PM
From: Akula	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Let me clarify. Let us say that God created a specific condition for the Big Bang. Thus he could at some point be omniscient. In theory, as LaPlace stated, if an infallible being knew everything at one piont, he could deduce the future. If God could predict my actions ten minutes from now then I necessarily have no free will. Let us assume that there is no way to predict my actions. Thus, God is defeated from being omniscient by my interference in Heisenberg Uncertainty. He could have short term prediction but the future woud be largely unpredictable. If we assume that God exists now and ten minutes from now then he can know my actions without predicting them. Thus we escape the whole issue.